Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1945

Tuesday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 44 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

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

Day of Monday 15 October

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

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:41
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

0 of 674 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
Śravaṇa ends 16:54:58
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

627 of 671 minutes covered, the first 627

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 05:43 on Tue 16 Oct to 04:41 on Wed 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:49 on Mon 15 Oct to 16:55 on Tue 16 Oct. They are together from 05:43 on Tue 16 Oct to 16:55 on Tue 16 Oct.

    1945-10-15T21:43:23Z → 1945-10-16T08:54:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:27–17:41 on the 15th, 06:28–17:39 on the 16th.

    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 674 minutes on the 15th and 627 of 671 on the 16th.

    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 2652 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1945: Tuesday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1945 falls on Tuesday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 05:43 on Tue 16 Oct to 04:41 on Wed 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 627 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1945/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:43 → 00:5505:58215 min05:590 min15 Oct
Chicago15:43 → 02:5506:0386 min06:040 min15 Oct
Jersey City16:43 → 03:5506:0733 min06:090 min15 Oct
Port of Spain17:43 → 04:5505:555 min05:550 min15 Oct
London21:43 → 08:5506:240 min06:26149 min16 Oct
Durban23:43 → 10:5505:190 min05:18337 min16 Oct
Dubai01:43 → 12:5506:170 min06:17398 min16 Oct
Delhi03:13 → 14:2506:220 min06:22483 min16 Oct
Kolkata03:13 → 14:2505:330 min05:33532 min16 Oct
Singapore05:13 → 16:2506:180 min06:18607 min16 Oct
Sydney07:43 → 18:5505:150 min05:14625 min16 Oct
Suva09:43 → 20:5505:380 min05:37504 min16 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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