Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1942

Sunday 18 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 83 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 Sunday 18 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

07:30 sunrisesunset 18:37
Daśamī begins 17:14:13
07:0609:0611:0613:0615:0617:0619:06

83 of 667 minutes covered, the last 83

Day of Monday 19 October

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

07:31 sunrisesunset 18:35
07:0709:0711:0713:0715:0717:0719:07

0 of 665 minutes covered

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 17:14 on Sun 18 Oct to 15:45 on Mon 19 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:15 on Sun 18 Oct to 00:17 on Mon 19 Oct. They are together from 17:14 on Sun 18 Oct to 00:17 on Mon 19 Oct.

    1942-10-18T08:14:13Z → 1942-10-18T15:17:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 07:30–18:37 on the 18th, 07:31–18:35 on the 19th.

    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 83 of 667 minutes on the 18th and 0 of 665 on the 19th.

    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 4950 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1942: Sunday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1942 falls on Sunday 18 October. Daśamī runs from 17:14 on Sun 18 Oct to 15:45 on Mon 19 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 83 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1942/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 18 Oct
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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:14 → 08:1707:0077 min07:010 min18 Oct
Chicago03:14 → 10:1707:06191 min07:070 min18 Oct
Jersey City04:14 → 11:1707:10247 min07:120 min18 Oct
Port of Spain05:14 → 12:1706:55322 min06:550 min18 Oct
London09:14 → 16:1707:29423 min07:300 min18 Oct
Durban11:14 → 18:1706:16423 min06:150 min18 Oct
Dubai12:14 → 19:1706:18335 min06:190 min18 Oct
Delhi14:44 → 21:4707:23245 min07:240 min18 Oct
Kolkata14:44 → 21:4706:34205 min06:350 min18 Oct
Singapore17:14 → 00:1707:48158 min07:480 min18 Oct
Sydney19:14 → 02:1706:120 min06:110 min19 Oct
Suva20:14 → 03:1705:360 min05:360 min19 Oct
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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