Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1944

Wednesday 27 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 69 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Wednesday 27 September

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:45  13:33 madhyāhna ends
11:5712:2112:4513:0913:3313:5714:21

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 28 September

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:45  13:33 madhyāhna ends
11:5712:2112:4513:0913:3313:5714:21

0 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 07:49 on Wed 27 Sep to 06:02 on Thu 28 Sep.

    1944-09-26T22:49:02Z → 1944-09-27T21:02:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:45–13:33 on the 27th, 12:45–13:33 on the 28th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 27th and 0 of 48 on the 28th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 4122 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1944: Wednesday 27 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1944 falls on Wednesday 27 September. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 07:49 on Wed 27 Sep to 06:02 on Thu 28 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1944/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 27 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 27 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 27 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 26thCoveredMadhyāhna 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:49 → 14:0212:200 min12:2048 min27 Sep
Chicago17:49 → 16:0212:180 min12:1748 min27 Sep
Jersey City18:49 → 17:0212:230 min12:2348 min27 Sep
Port of Spain19:49 → 18:0212:330 min12:3348 min27 Sep
London23:49 → 22:0212:270 min12:2748 min27 Sep
Durban00:49 → 23:0211:230 min11:2348 min27 Sep
Dubai02:49 → 01:0211:460 min11:4648 min27 Sep
Delhi05:19 → 03:3212:480 min12:4848 min27 Sep
Kolkata05:19 → 03:3212:040 min12:0348 min27 Sep
Singapore07:49 → 06:0213:320 min13:3248 min27 Sep
Sydney08:49 → 07:0211:230 min11:2348 min28 Sep
Suva10:49 → 09:0211:340 min11:3448 min28 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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