Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1959

Sunday 11 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 120 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 10 October

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

06:22 sunrisesunset 17:49
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58

0 of 687 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 11 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:23 sunrisesunset 17:47
Śravaṇa ends 19:46:44
05:5907:5909:5911:5913:5915:5917:5919:59

684 of 684 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 22:11 on Sat 10 Oct to 21:18 on Sun 11 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 20:00 on Sat 10 Oct to 19:47 on Sun 11 Oct. They are together from 22:11 on Sat 10 Oct to 19:47 on Sun 11 Oct.

    1959-10-10T14:10:32Z → 1959-10-11T11:46:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:22–17:49 on the 10th, 06:23–17:47 on the 11th.

    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 687 minutes on the 10th and 684 of 684 on the 11th.

    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 7180 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1959: Sunday 11 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1959 falls on Sunday 11 October. Daśamī runs from 22:11 on Sat 10 Oct to 21:18 on Sun 11 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 684 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1959/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 11 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 11 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 11 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 10thCoveredSunrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:11 → 03:4705:54675 min05:550 min10 Oct
Chicago09:11 → 06:4706:57547 min06:580 min10 Oct
Jersey City10:11 → 07:4707:02494 min07:0344 min10 Oct
Port of Spain10:11 → 07:4705:55461 min05:55112 min10 Oct
London14:11 → 11:4706:15189 min06:17330 min11 Oct
Durban16:11 → 13:4705:25111 min05:24503 min11 Oct
Dubai18:11 → 15:4706:140 min06:15572 min11 Oct
Delhi19:41 → 17:1706:190 min06:19658 min11 Oct
Kolkata19:41 → 17:1705:310 min05:31704 min11 Oct
Singapore21:41 → 19:1706:190 min06:19725 min11 Oct
Sydney00:11 → 21:4705:220 min05:21764 min11 Oct
Suva02:11 → 23:4705:420 min05:41744 min11 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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