Day of Monday 8 October
Qualifies with 98 of 691 minutes. Not taken.
06:20 sunrisesunset 17:51
Śravaṇa begins 16:13:00
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56
98 of 691 minutes covered, the last 98
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1962
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Monday 8 October
Qualifies with 98 of 691 minutes. Not taken.
98 of 691 minutes covered, the last 98
Day of Tuesday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
405 of 689 minutes covered, the first 405
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 14:47 on Mon 8 Oct to 13:06 on Tue 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:13 on Mon 8 Oct to 15:12 on Tue 9 Oct. They are together from 16:13 on Mon 8 Oct to 13:06 on Tue 9 Oct.
1962-10-08T08:13:00Z → 1962-10-09T05:05:36Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–17:51 on the 8th, 06:21–17:50 on the 9th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 98 of 691 minutes on the 8th and 405 of 689 on the 9th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 5892 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1962: Tuesday 9 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1962 falls on Tuesday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 14:47 on Mon 8 Oct to 13:06 on Tue 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 405 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 98 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Tue 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 9 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Sunrise 9th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 01:13 → 22:06 | 06:53 | 695 min | 06:53 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 03:13 → 00:06 | 06:55 | 686 min | 06:56 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 04:13 → 01:06 | 07:00 | 687 min | 07:01 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 04:13 → 01:06 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 09:13 → 06:06 | 07:12 | 550 min | 07:14 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 10:13 → 07:06 | 05:27 | 468 min | 05:26 | 100 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 12:13 → 09:06 | 06:14 | 346 min | 06:14 | 171 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 13:43 → 10:36 | 06:18 | 257 min | 06:18 | 257 min | 9 Oct |
| Kolkata | 13:43 → 10:36 | 05:30 | 215 min | 05:31 | 305 min | 9 Oct |
| Singapore | 15:43 → 12:36 | 06:20 | 162 min | 06:20 | 376 min | 9 Oct |
| Sydney | 18:13 → 15:06 | 05:24 | 0 min | 05:23 | 583 min | 9 Oct |
| Suva | 20:13 → 17:06 | 05:44 | 0 min | 05:43 | 683 min | 9 Oct |