Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1948

Tuesday 12 October

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 42 s away. Say “contested”.

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 11 October

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

06:23 sunrisesunset 17:46
05:5907:5909:5911:5913:5915:5917:59

0 of 683 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 12 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:24 sunrisesunset 17:45
Śravaṇa ends 17:41:53
06:0008:0010:0012:0014:0016:0018:00

678 of 680 minutes covered, the first 678

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 20:53 on Mon 11 Oct to 23:12 on Tue 12 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 14:57 on Mon 11 Oct to 17:42 on Tue 12 Oct. They are together from 20:53 on Mon 11 Oct to 17:42 on Tue 12 Oct.

    1948-10-11T12:53:11Z → 1948-10-12T09:41:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:23–17:46 on the 11th, 06:24–17:45 on the 12th.

    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 683 minutes on the 11th and 678 of 680 on the 12th.

    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 162 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1948: Tuesday 12 October.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1948 falls on Tuesday 12 October. Daśamī runs from 20:53 on Mon 11 Oct to 23:12 on Tue 12 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 678 minutes. It is 2 min 42 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1948/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 12 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 12 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 12 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 11thCoveredSunrise 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:53 → 02:4206:55688 min06:560 min11 Oct
Chicago06:53 → 03:4205:59622 min06:000 min11 Oct
Jersey City07:53 → 04:4206:03569 min06:050 min11 Oct
Port of Spain08:53 → 05:4205:55537 min05:550 min11 Oct
London13:53 → 10:4207:18263 min07:19202 min11 Oct
Durban14:53 → 11:4205:23190 min05:22380 min12 Oct
Dubai16:53 → 13:4206:1562 min06:16446 min12 Oct
Delhi18:23 → 15:1206:200 min06:20532 min12 Oct
Kolkata18:23 → 15:1205:320 min05:32580 min12 Oct
Singapore20:23 → 17:1206:190 min06:19653 min12 Oct
Sydney22:53 → 19:4205:200 min05:19767 min12 Oct
Suva00:53 → 21:4205:410 min05:40746 min12 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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