Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1958

Tuesday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 163 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 Monday 20 October

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

06:32 sunrisesunset 17:34
06:0808:0810:0812:0814:0816:0818:08

0 of 662 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 21 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:33 sunrisesunset 17:32
Daśamī begins 10:40:15Śravaṇa ends 13:22:50
06:0908:0910:0912:0914:0916:0918:09

163 of 659 minutes covered, the first 163

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 10:40 on Tue 21 Oct to 11:53 on Wed 22 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 12:10 on Mon 20 Oct to 13:23 on Tue 21 Oct. They are together from 10:40 on Tue 21 Oct to 13:23 on Tue 21 Oct.

    1958-10-21T02:40:15Z → 1958-10-21T05:22:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:32–17:34 on the 20th, 06:33–17:32 on the 21st.

    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 662 minutes on the 20th and 163 of 659 on the 21st.

    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 9755 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1958: Tuesday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1958 falls on Tuesday 21 October. Daśamī runs from 10:40 on Tue 21 Oct to 11:53 on Wed 22 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 163 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1958/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 21 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 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:40 → 21:2306:030 min06:040 min21 Oct
Chicago21:40 → 00:2307:100 min07:110 min21 Oct
Jersey City22:40 → 01:2307:140 min07:150 min21 Oct
Port of Spain22:40 → 01:2305:560 min05:560 min21 Oct
London02:40 → 05:2306:340 min06:360 min21 Oct
Durban04:40 → 07:2305:13130 min05:120 min21 Oct
Dubai06:40 → 09:2306:20163 min06:200 min21 Oct
Delhi08:10 → 10:5306:25163 min06:260 min21 Oct
Kolkata08:10 → 10:5305:35163 min05:360 min21 Oct
Singapore10:10 → 12:5306:17163 min06:170 min21 Oct
Sydney12:40 → 15:2305:08163 min05:070 min21 Oct
Suva14:40 → 17:2305:34163 min05:330 min21 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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