Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1979

Monday 1 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 103 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 1 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:13 sunrisesunset 18:02
Śravaṇa begins 12:50:10Daśamī ends 19:45:38
05:4907:4909:4911:4913:4915:4917:4919:49

312 of 709 minutes covered, the last 312

Day of Tuesday 2 October

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

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:01
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

0 of 706 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 22:00 on Sun 30 Sep to 19:46 on Mon 1 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 12:50 on Mon 1 Oct to 11:01 on Tue 2 Oct. They are together from 12:50 on Mon 1 Oct to 19:46 on Mon 1 Oct.

    1979-10-01T04:50:10Z → 1979-10-01T11:45:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:13–18:02 on the 1st, 06:14–18:01 on the 2nd.

    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 312 of 709 minutes on the 1st and 0 of 706 on the 2nd.

    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 6203 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1979: Monday 1 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1979 falls on Monday 1 October. Daśamī runs from 22:00 on Sun 30 Sep to 19:46 on Mon 1 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 312 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 1 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 1 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 1 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 1stCoveredSunrise 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:50 → 04:4606:470 min06:480 min30 Sep
Chicago23:50 → 06:4606:470 min06:480 min30 Sep
Jersey City00:50 → 07:4606:5353 min06:540 min1 Oct
Port of Spain00:50 → 07:4605:55111 min05:550 min1 Oct
London05:50 → 12:4607:00345 min07:020 min1 Oct
Durban06:50 → 13:4605:36415 min05:340 min1 Oct
Dubai08:50 → 15:4606:11415 min06:110 min1 Oct
Delhi10:20 → 17:1606:14415 min06:140 min1 Oct
Kolkata10:20 → 17:1605:28415 min05:280 min1 Oct
Singapore12:20 → 19:1606:22367 min06:210 min1 Oct
Sydney14:50 → 21:4605:34187 min05:330 min1 Oct
Suva16:50 → 23:4605:4973 min05:490 min1 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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