Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1975

Tuesday 14 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 21 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 Monday 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

Day of Tuesday 14 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
Śravaṇa ends 17:21:01
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

655 of 677 minutes covered, the first 655

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 23:09 on Mon 13 Oct to 01:05 on Wed 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:02 on Mon 13 Oct to 17:21 on Tue 14 Oct. They are together from 23:09 on Mon 13 Oct to 17:21 on Tue 14 Oct.

    1975-10-13T15:08:59Z → 1975-10-14T09:21:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:25–17:44 on the 13th, 06:26–17:42 on the 14th.

    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 679 minutes on the 13th and 655 of 677 on the 14th.

    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 1286 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1975: Tuesday 14 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1975 falls on Tuesday 14 October. Daśamī runs from 23:09 on Mon 13 Oct to 01:05 on Wed 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 655 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1975/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 14 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 14 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 14 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 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:09 → 02:2106:56613 min06:570 min13 Oct
Chicago10:09 → 04:2107:00484 min07:010 min13 Oct
Jersey City11:09 → 05:2107:05431 min07:060 min13 Oct
Port of Spain11:09 → 05:2105:55401 min05:550 min13 Oct
London16:09 → 10:2107:20124 min07:22179 min14 Oct
Durban17:09 → 11:2105:2155 min05:20361 min14 Oct
Dubai19:09 → 13:2106:160 min06:16425 min14 Oct
Delhi20:39 → 14:5106:200 min06:21510 min14 Oct
Kolkata20:39 → 14:5105:320 min05:33559 min14 Oct
Singapore22:39 → 16:5106:190 min06:18633 min14 Oct
Sydney01:09 → 19:2105:180 min05:17770 min14 Oct
Suva03:09 → 21:2105:400 min05:39747 min14 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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