Day of Thursday 20 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
06:32 sunrisesunset 17:33
06:0808:0810:0812:0814:0816:0818:08
0 of 661 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1977
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 4 min 46 s away. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 20 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 661 minutes covered
Day of Friday 21 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
150 of 659 minutes covered, the first 150
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 06:29 on Fri 21 Oct to 05:31 on Sat 22 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 09:44 on Thu 20 Oct to 09:03 on Fri 21 Oct. They are together from 06:29 on Fri 21 Oct to 09:03 on Fri 21 Oct.
1977-10-20T22:28:36Z → 1977-10-21T01:03:08Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:32–17:33 on the 20th, 06:33–17:32 on the 21st.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 0 of 661 minutes on the 20th and 150 of 659 on the 21st.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 286 s < 300 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1977: Friday 21 October.
confidence: boundary (margin)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1977 falls on Friday 21 October. Daśamī runs from 06:29 on Fri 21 Oct to 05:31 on Sat 22 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 150 minutes. It is 4 min 46 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Fri 21 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Fri 21 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Fri 21 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 20th | Covered | Sunrise 21st | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 15:29 → 18:03 | 07:03 | 155 min | 07:03 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Chicago | 17:29 → 20:03 | 07:09 | 33 min | 07:10 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Jersey City | 18:29 → 21:03 | 07:13 | 0 min | 07:14 | 0 min | 21 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 18:29 → 21:03 | 05:56 | 0 min | 05:56 | 0 min | 21 Oct |
| London | 23:29 → 02:03 | 07:33 | 0 min | 07:35 | 0 min | 21 Oct |
| Durban | 00:29 → 03:03 | 05:13 | 0 min | 05:12 | 0 min | 21 Oct |
| Dubai | 02:29 → 05:03 | 06:20 | 0 min | 06:20 | 0 min | 21 Oct |
| Delhi | 03:59 → 06:33 | 06:25 | 0 min | 06:26 | 7 min | 21 Oct |
| Kolkata | 03:59 → 06:33 | 05:35 | 0 min | 05:36 | 57 min | 21 Oct |
| Singapore | 05:59 → 08:33 | 06:17 | 0 min | 06:17 | 136 min | 21 Oct |
| Sydney | 08:29 → 11:03 | 05:09 | 0 min | 05:08 | 155 min | 21 Oct |
| Suva | 10:29 → 13:03 | 05:35 | 0 min | 05:34 | 155 min | 21 Oct |