Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1953

Saturday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 103 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 Saturday 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
Daśamī begins 15:54:59
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

103 of 669 minutes covered, the last 103

Day of Sunday 18 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:36
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 666 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 15:55 on Sat 17 Oct to 13:51 on Sun 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:14 on Sat 17 Oct to 00:18 on Sun 18 Oct. They are together from 15:55 on Sat 17 Oct to 00:18 on Sun 18 Oct.

    1953-10-17T07:55:00Z → 1953-10-17T16:18:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:38 on the 17th, 06:30–17:36 on the 18th.

    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 103 of 669 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 666 on the 18th.

    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 6159 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1953: Saturday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1953 falls on Saturday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 15:55 on Sat 17 Oct to 13:51 on Sun 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 103 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1953/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 17 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:55 → 08:1806:00138 min06:010 min17 Oct
Chicago01:55 → 10:1806:05253 min06:060 min17 Oct
Jersey City02:55 → 11:1806:10309 min06:110 min17 Oct
Port of Spain03:55 → 12:1805:55383 min05:550 min17 Oct
London07:55 → 16:1806:28503 min06:290 min17 Oct
Durban09:55 → 18:1805:17492 min05:160 min17 Oct
Dubai11:55 → 20:1806:18355 min06:180 min17 Oct
Delhi13:25 → 21:4806:23265 min06:240 min17 Oct
Kolkata13:25 → 21:4805:34225 min05:340 min17 Oct
Singapore15:25 → 23:4806:18177 min06:180 min17 Oct
Sydney17:55 → 02:1805:1314 min05:110 min17 Oct
Suva19:55 → 04:1805:370 min05:360 min18 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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