Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1967

Thursday 12 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 86 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 12 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:24 sunrisesunset 17:45
Daśamī begins 07:49:51
06:0008:0010:0012:0014:0016:0018:00

596 of 682 minutes covered, the last 596

Day of Friday 13 October

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

06:25 sunrisesunset 17:44
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01

0 of 679 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 07:50 on Thu 12 Oct to 08:24 on Fri 13 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 03:03 on Thu 12 Oct to 04:07 on Fri 13 Oct. They are together from 07:50 on Thu 12 Oct to 04:07 on Fri 13 Oct.

    1967-10-11T23:49:52Z → 1967-10-12T20:07:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:24–17:45 on the 12th, 06:25–17:44 on the 13th.

    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 596 of 682 minutes on the 12th and 0 of 679 on the 13th.

    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 5169 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1967: Thursday 12 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1967 falls on Thursday 12 October. Daśamī runs from 07:50 on Thu 12 Oct to 08:24 on Fri 13 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 596 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1967/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 12 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 12 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 12 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 11thCoveredSunrise 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:50 → 13:0706:5594 min06:56372 min12 Oct
Chicago18:50 → 15:0706:580 min06:59488 min12 Oct
Jersey City19:50 → 16:0707:030 min07:04544 min12 Oct
Port of Spain19:50 → 16:0705:550 min05:55612 min12 Oct
London00:50 → 21:0707:170 min07:18657 min12 Oct
Durban01:50 → 22:0705:240 min05:23760 min12 Oct
Dubai03:50 → 00:0706:150 min06:15700 min12 Oct
Delhi05:20 → 01:3706:190 min06:20696 min12 Oct
Kolkata05:20 → 01:3705:310 min05:32703 min12 Oct
Singapore07:20 → 03:3706:190 min06:19664 min12 Oct
Sydney09:50 → 06:0705:210 min05:19495 min12 Oct
Suva11:50 → 08:0705:410 min05:41376 min12 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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