Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1970

Saturday 10 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 109 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 Friday 9 October

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

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:50
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

0 of 689 minutes covered

Day of Saturday 10 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:22 sunrisesunset 17:48
Daśamī ends 19:37:31
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58

686 of 686 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 21:59 on Fri 9 Oct to 19:38 on Sat 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 21:17 on Fri 9 Oct to 19:41 on Sat 10 Oct. They are together from 21:59 on Fri 9 Oct to 19:38 on Sat 10 Oct.

    1970-10-09T13:59:19Z → 1970-10-10T11:37:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–17:50 on the 9th, 06:22–17:48 on the 10th.

    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 689 minutes on the 9th and 686 of 686 on the 10th.

    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 6568 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1970: Saturday 10 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1970 falls on Saturday 10 October. Daśamī runs from 21:59 on Fri 9 Oct to 19:38 on Sat 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 686 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1970/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 10 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 10 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 10 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 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:59 → 04:3806:53687 min06:540 min9 Oct
Chicago08:59 → 06:3806:56560 min06:570 min9 Oct
Jersey City09:59 → 07:3807:01506 min07:0235 min9 Oct
Port of Spain09:59 → 07:3805:55472 min05:55103 min9 Oct
London14:59 → 12:3807:14202 min07:16322 min10 Oct
Durban15:59 → 13:3805:26122 min05:25493 min10 Oct
Dubai17:59 → 15:3806:140 min06:15563 min10 Oct
Delhi19:29 → 17:0806:180 min06:19649 min10 Oct
Kolkata19:29 → 17:0805:310 min05:31696 min10 Oct
Singapore21:29 → 19:0806:200 min06:19725 min10 Oct
Sydney23:59 → 21:3805:230 min05:22762 min10 Oct
Suva01:59 → 23:3805:430 min05:42743 min10 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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