Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1961

Thursday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 159 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 Wednesday 18 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 19 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

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 21:36 on Wed 18 Oct to 19:14 on Thu 19 Oct.

    1961-10-18T13:36:05Z → 1961-10-19T11:13:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 18th, 11:39–12:27 on the 19th.

    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 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

    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 9569 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1961: Thursday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1961 falls on Thursday 19 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 21:36 on Wed 18 Oct to 19:14 on Thu 19 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1961/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 19 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 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:36 → 03:1411:1448 min11:140 min18 Oct
Chicago08:36 → 06:1412:1148 min12:110 min18 Oct
Jersey City09:36 → 07:1412:1748 min12:170 min18 Oct
Port of Spain09:36 → 07:1411:2748 min11:270 min18 Oct
London14:36 → 12:1412:210 min12:210 min18 Oct
Durban15:36 → 13:1411:170 min11:1748 min18 Oct
Dubai17:36 → 15:1411:400 min11:4048 min18 Oct
Delhi19:06 → 16:4411:420 min11:4248 min19 Oct
Kolkata19:06 → 16:4410:580 min10:5748 min19 Oct
Singapore21:06 → 18:4411:560 min11:5648 min19 Oct
Sydney23:36 → 21:1411:170 min11:1748 min19 Oct
Suva01:36 → 23:1411:280 min11:2848 min19 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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