Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1974

Friday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 457 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 25 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 26 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 01:38 on Fri 25 Oct to 04:01 on Sat 26 Oct.

    1974-10-24T17:37:43Z → 1974-10-25T20:00:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 25th, 11:38–12:26 on the 26th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 48 on the 26th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 27429 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1974: Friday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1974 falls on Friday 25 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 01:38 on Fri 25 Oct to 04:01 on Sat 26 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1974/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 25 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:38 → 13:0112:1348 min12:1348 min24 Oct
Chicago12:38 → 15:0112:1121 min12:1048 min25 Oct
Jersey City13:38 → 16:0112:160 min12:1648 min25 Oct
Port of Spain13:38 → 16:0111:260 min11:2648 min25 Oct
London18:38 → 21:0112:200 min12:2048 min25 Oct
Durban19:38 → 22:0111:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Dubai21:38 → 00:0111:390 min11:3948 min25 Oct
Delhi23:08 → 01:3111:410 min11:4148 min25 Oct
Kolkata23:08 → 01:3110:570 min10:5748 min25 Oct
Singapore01:08 → 03:3111:550 min11:5548 min25 Oct
Sydney03:38 → 06:0111:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Suva05:38 → 08:0111:270 min11:2748 min25 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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