Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1954

Thursday 7 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 25 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 Thursday 7 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:53
Śravaṇa begins 06:43:39
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

669 of 694 minutes covered, the last 669

Day of Friday 8 October

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

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:51
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

0 of 691 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 02:33 on Thu 7 Oct to 02:10 on Fri 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 06:44 on Thu 7 Oct to 06:51 on Fri 8 Oct. They are together from 06:44 on Thu 7 Oct to 02:10 on Fri 8 Oct.

    1954-10-06T22:43:40Z → 1954-10-07T18:09:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:19–17:53 on the 7th, 06:20–17:51 on the 8th.

    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 669 of 694 minutes on the 7th and 0 of 691 on the 8th.

    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 1478 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1954: Thursday 7 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1954 falls on Thursday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 02:33 on Thu 7 Oct to 02:10 on Fri 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 669 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 7 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 6thCoveredSunrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:44 → 10:1005:51167 min05:52258 min7 Oct
Chicago16:44 → 12:1005:5341 min05:54376 min7 Oct
Jersey City17:44 → 13:1005:580 min05:59431 min7 Oct
Port of Spain18:44 → 14:1005:550 min05:55495 min7 Oct
London22:44 → 18:1006:090 min06:10675 min7 Oct
Durban00:44 → 20:1005:290 min05:28752 min7 Oct
Dubai02:44 → 22:1006:130 min06:13707 min7 Oct
Delhi04:14 → 23:4006:170 min06:17704 min7 Oct
Kolkata04:14 → 23:4005:300 min05:30709 min7 Oct
Singapore06:14 → 01:4006:200 min06:20725 min7 Oct
Sydney08:44 → 04:1005:270 min05:26558 min7 Oct
Suva10:44 → 06:1005:450 min05:44441 min7 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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