Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1964

Thursday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 81 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 Thursday 15 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:40
Daśamī begins 16:03:39
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

96 of 673 minutes covered, the last 96

Day of Friday 16 October

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

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

0 of 670 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 16:04 on Thu 15 Oct to 17:21 on Fri 16 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 02:57 on Thu 15 Oct to 05:07 on Fri 16 Oct. They are together from 16:04 on Thu 15 Oct to 05:07 on Fri 16 Oct.

    1964-10-15T08:03:39Z → 1964-10-15T21:07:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:27–17:40 on the 15th, 06:28–17:39 on the 16th.

    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 96 of 673 minutes on the 15th and 0 of 670 on the 16th.

    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 4859 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1964: Thursday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1964 falls on Thursday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 16:04 on Thu 15 Oct to 17:21 on Fri 16 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 96 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1964/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 15 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:04 → 14:0706:59429 min06:590 min15 Oct
Chicago03:04 → 16:0707:03544 min07:050 min15 Oct
Jersey City04:04 → 17:0707:08600 min07:090 min15 Oct
Port of Spain04:04 → 17:0705:55672 min05:550 min15 Oct
London09:04 → 22:0707:25543 min07:260 min15 Oct
Durban10:04 → 23:0705:18482 min05:170 min15 Oct
Dubai12:04 → 01:0706:17348 min06:180 min15 Oct
Delhi13:34 → 02:3706:22258 min06:230 min15 Oct
Kolkata13:34 → 02:3705:33218 min05:340 min15 Oct
Singapore15:34 → 04:3706:18169 min06:180 min15 Oct
Sydney18:04 → 07:0705:154 min05:13114 min16 Oct
Suva20:04 → 09:0705:380 min05:37210 min16 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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