Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1972

Tuesday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 108 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 Tuesday 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:37
Daśamī begins 10:09:14
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

448 of 668 minutes covered, the last 448

Day of Wednesday 18 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:36
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 665 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 10:09 on Tue 17 Oct to 09:54 on Wed 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 18:30 on Mon 16 Oct to 19:25 on Tue 17 Oct. They are together from 10:09 on Tue 17 Oct to 19:25 on Tue 17 Oct.

    1972-10-17T02:09:14Z → 1972-10-17T11:24:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:37 on the 17th, 06:30–17:36 on the 18th.

    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 448 of 668 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 665 on the 18th.

    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 6464 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1972: Tuesday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1972 falls on Tuesday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 10:09 on Tue 17 Oct to 09:54 on Wed 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 448 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1972/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 17 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:09 → 04:2507:000 min07:010 min17 Oct
Chicago21:09 → 06:2507:060 min07:070 min17 Oct
Jersey City22:09 → 07:2507:1015 min07:110 min17 Oct
Port of Spain22:09 → 07:2505:5589 min05:550 min17 Oct
London03:09 → 12:2507:28297 min07:300 min17 Oct
Durban04:09 → 13:2505:16489 min05:150 min17 Oct
Dubai06:09 → 15:2506:18547 min06:190 min17 Oct
Delhi07:39 → 16:5506:23556 min06:240 min17 Oct
Kolkata07:39 → 16:5505:34556 min05:340 min17 Oct
Singapore09:39 → 18:5506:18523 min06:180 min17 Oct
Sydney12:09 → 21:2505:12360 min05:110 min17 Oct
Suva14:09 → 23:2505:36238 min05:360 min17 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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