Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1955

Wednesday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 321 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 25 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 26 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

48 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 21:26 on Tue 25 Oct to 22:04 on Wed 26 Oct.

    1955-10-25T13:26:28Z → 1955-10-26T14:03:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 25th, 11:38–12:26 on the 26th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 25th and 48 of 48 on the 26th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 19277 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1955: Wednesday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1955 falls on Wednesday 26 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 21:26 on Tue 25 Oct to 22:04 on Wed 26 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1955/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 26 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:26 → 06:0411:1348 min11:130 min25 Oct
Chicago08:26 → 09:0412:1048 min12:100 min25 Oct
Jersey City09:26 → 10:0412:1648 min12:160 min25 Oct
Port of Spain09:26 → 10:0411:2648 min11:260 min25 Oct
London13:26 → 14:0411:200 min11:2048 min26 Oct
Durban15:26 → 16:0411:160 min11:1648 min26 Oct
Dubai17:26 → 18:0411:390 min11:3948 min26 Oct
Delhi18:56 → 19:3411:410 min11:4148 min26 Oct
Kolkata18:56 → 19:3410:570 min10:5748 min26 Oct
Singapore20:56 → 21:3411:550 min11:5548 min26 Oct
Sydney23:26 → 00:0411:160 min11:1648 min26 Oct
Suva01:26 → 02:0411:270 min11:2748 min26 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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