Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1952

Monday 29 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 33 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 28 September

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

06:11 sunrisesunset 18:06
05:4707:4709:4711:4713:4715:4717:4719:47

0 of 715 minutes covered

Day of Monday 29 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:12 sunrisesunset 18:05
Śravaṇa begins 06:45:17Daśamī ends 11:17:24
05:4807:4809:4811:4813:4815:4817:4819:48

272 of 713 minutes covered, the first 272

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 13:41 on Sun 28 Sep to 11:17 on Mon 29 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 06:45 on Mon 29 Sep to 04:51 on Tue 30 Sep. They are together from 06:45 on Mon 29 Sep to 11:17 on Mon 29 Sep.

    1952-09-28T22:45:18Z → 1952-09-29T03:17:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:11–18:06 on the 28th, 06:12–18:05 on the 29th.

    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 715 minutes on the 28th and 272 of 713 on the 29th.

    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 2001 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1952: Monday 29 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1952 falls on Monday 29 September. Daśamī runs from 13:41 on Sun 28 Sep to 11:17 on Mon 29 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 272 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1952/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 29 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 29 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 29 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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:45 → 19:1705:46176 min05:460 min28 Sep
Chicago16:45 → 21:1705:4552 min05:460 min28 Sep
Jersey City17:45 → 22:1705:500 min05:510 min28 Sep
Port of Spain18:45 → 23:1705:550 min05:550 min28 Sep
London23:45 → 04:1706:560 min06:580 min28 Sep
Durban00:45 → 05:1705:380 min05:370 min28 Sep
Dubai02:45 → 07:1706:100 min06:1067 min29 Sep
Delhi04:15 → 08:4706:120 min06:13154 min29 Sep
Kolkata04:15 → 08:4705:270 min05:27200 min29 Sep
Singapore06:15 → 10:4706:220 min06:22265 min29 Sep
Sydney08:45 → 13:1705:370 min05:36272 min29 Sep
Suva10:45 → 15:1705:520 min05:51272 min29 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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