Day of Thursday 8 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
06:20 sunrisesunset 17:51
Śravaṇa begins 07:53:45
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56
597 of 690 minutes covered, the last 597
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1981
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 48 s away. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 8 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
597 of 690 minutes covered, the last 597
Day of Friday 9 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 688 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 05:52 on Thu 8 Oct to 06:19 on Fri 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 07:54 on Thu 8 Oct to 08:53 on Fri 9 Oct. They are together from 07:54 on Thu 8 Oct to 06:19 on Fri 9 Oct.
1981-10-07T23:53:45Z → 1981-10-08T22:18:34Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–17:51 on the 8th, 06:21–17:49 on the 9th.
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 597 of 690 minutes on the 8th and 0 of 688 on the 9th.
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 168 s < 300 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1981: Thursday 8 October.
confidence: boundary (margin)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1981 falls on Thursday 8 October. Daśamī runs from 05:52 on Thu 8 Oct to 06:19 on Fri 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 597 minutes. It is 2 min 48 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Thu 8 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 8 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 8 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 7th | Covered | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 16:54 → 15:19 | 06:52 | 95 min | 06:53 | 506 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 18:54 → 17:19 | 06:54 | 0 min | 06:55 | 623 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 19:54 → 18:19 | 06:59 | 0 min | 07:00 | 678 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 19:54 → 18:19 | 05:55 | 0 min | 05:55 | 717 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 00:54 → 23:19 | 07:11 | 0 min | 07:13 | 670 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 01:54 → 00:19 | 05:28 | 0 min | 05:26 | 754 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 03:54 → 02:19 | 06:13 | 0 min | 06:14 | 705 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 05:24 → 03:49 | 06:17 | 0 min | 06:18 | 701 min | 8 Oct |
| Kolkata | 05:24 → 03:49 | 05:30 | 0 min | 05:30 | 707 min | 8 Oct |
| Singapore | 07:24 → 05:49 | 06:20 | 0 min | 06:20 | 661 min | 8 Oct |
| Sydney | 09:54 → 08:19 | 05:25 | 0 min | 05:24 | 489 min | 8 Oct |
| Suva | 11:54 → 10:19 | 05:44 | 0 min | 05:43 | 371 min | 8 Oct |