Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1957

Thursday 3 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 8 min 55 s.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Wednesday 2 October

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

06:15 sunrisesunset 18:00
05:5107:5109:5111:5113:5115:5117:5119:51

0 of 706 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 3 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:15 sunrisesunset 17:59
Daśamī ends 17:49:40
05:5107:5109:5111:5113:5115:5117:5119:51

694 of 703 minutes covered, the first 694

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 15:51 on Wed 2 Oct to 17:50 on Thu 3 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 04:33 on Thu 3 Oct to 07:15 on Fri 4 Oct. They are together from 04:33 on Thu 3 Oct to 17:50 on Thu 3 Oct.

    1957-10-02T20:33:26Z → 1957-10-03T09:49:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:15–18:00 on the 2nd, 06:15–17:59 on the 3rd.

    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 706 minutes on the 2nd and 694 of 703 on the 3rd.

    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 535 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1957: Thursday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1957 falls on Thursday 3 October. Daśamī runs from 15:51 on Wed 2 Oct to 17:50 on Thu 3 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 694 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1957/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 3 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 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:33 → 01:5005:48302 min05:490 min2 Oct
Chicago15:33 → 04:5006:49177 min06:500 min2 Oct
Jersey City16:33 → 05:5006:54123 min06:550 min2 Oct
Port of Spain16:33 → 05:5005:5582 min05:550 min2 Oct
London21:33 → 10:5007:020 min07:04226 min3 Oct
Durban22:33 → 11:5005:340 min05:33377 min3 Oct
Dubai00:33 → 13:5006:110 min06:12458 min3 Oct
Delhi02:03 → 15:2006:140 min06:15545 min3 Oct
Kolkata02:03 → 15:2005:280 min05:29591 min3 Oct
Singapore04:03 → 17:2006:210 min06:21659 min3 Oct
Sydney06:33 → 19:5005:320 min05:31685 min3 Oct
Suva08:33 → 21:5005:480 min05:48570 min3 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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