Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1956

Sunday 14 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 45 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 13 October

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

06:25 sunrisesunset 17:43
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01

0 of 678 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 14 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
Śravaṇa ends 11:38:43
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

312 of 675 minutes covered, the first 312

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 18:28 on Sat 13 Oct to 20:47 on Sun 14 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 08:45 on Sat 13 Oct to 11:39 on Sun 14 Oct. They are together from 18:28 on Sat 13 Oct to 11:39 on Sun 14 Oct.

    1956-10-13T10:27:56Z → 1956-10-14T03:38:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:25–17:43 on the 13th, 06:26–17:42 on the 14th.

    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 678 minutes on the 13th and 312 of 675 on the 14th.

    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 2694 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1956: Sunday 14 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1956 falls on Sunday 14 October. Daśamī runs from 18:28 on Sat 13 Oct to 20:47 on Sun 14 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 312 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 14 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 14 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 14 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 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:28 → 19:3905:57684 min05:580 min13 Oct
Chicago05:28 → 22:3907:01671 min07:020 min13 Oct
Jersey City06:28 → 23:3907:06673 min07:070 min13 Oct
Port of Spain06:28 → 23:3905:55681 min05:550 min13 Oct
London10:28 → 03:3906:21403 min06:230 min13 Oct
Durban12:28 → 05:3905:21336 min05:2019 min13 Oct
Dubai14:28 → 07:3906:16206 min06:1782 min13 Oct
Delhi15:58 → 09:0906:21116 min06:21167 min14 Oct
Kolkata15:58 → 09:0905:3275 min05:33216 min14 Oct
Singapore17:58 → 11:0906:1925 min06:18290 min14 Oct
Sydney20:28 → 13:3905:170 min05:16503 min14 Oct
Suva22:28 → 15:3905:390 min05:39600 min14 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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