Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1941

Tuesday 30 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 32 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Monday 29 September

Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.

07:12 sunrisesunset 19:05
06:4808:4810:4812:4814:4816:4818:4820:48

0 of 713 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 30 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

07:13 sunrisesunset 19:03
Śravaṇa begins 07:44:44Daśamī ends 14:15:59
06:4908:4910:4912:4914:4916:4918:4920:49

391 of 711 minutes covered, the first 391

Daśamī and Śravaṇa togetherThe day time, the window the rule readsThe instant they come together or part

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 15:03 on Mon 29 Sep to 14:16 on Tue 30 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 07:45 on Tue 30 Sep to 08:01 on Wed 1 Oct. They are together from 07:45 on Tue 30 Sep to 14:16 on Tue 30 Sep.

    1941-09-29T22:44:44Z → 1941-09-30T05:15:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 07:12–19:05 on the 29th, 07:13–19:03 on the 30th.

    daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 0 of 713 minutes on the 29th and 391 of 711 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1931 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1941: Tuesday 30 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1941 falls on Tuesday 30 September. Daśamī runs from 15:03 on Mon 29 Sep to 14:16 on Tue 30 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 391 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1941/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 30 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 30 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 30 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Daśamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
First
With Śravaṇa in the day time

“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDaśamī with ŚravaṇaSunrise 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:45 → 21:1605:46175 min05:470 min29 Sep
Chicago16:45 → 23:1605:4551 min05:460 min29 Sep
Jersey City17:45 → 00:1605:510 min05:520 min29 Sep
Port of Spain18:45 → 01:1605:550 min05:550 min29 Sep
London23:45 → 06:1606:570 min06:590 min29 Sep
Durban00:45 → 07:1605:380 min05:36100 min30 Sep
Dubai02:45 → 09:1606:100 min06:10186 min30 Sep
Delhi04:15 → 10:4606:130 min06:13273 min30 Sep
Kolkata04:15 → 10:4605:270 min05:28318 min30 Sep
Singapore06:15 → 12:4606:220 min06:22384 min30 Sep
Sydney08:45 → 15:1605:360 min05:35391 min30 Sep
Suva10:45 → 17:1605:510 min05:50391 min30 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vijaya-dashami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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