Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1983

Sunday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 95 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 Saturday 15 October

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

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:41
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

0 of 674 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
Śravaṇa ends 10:19:21
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

232 of 672 minutes covered, the first 232

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 19:16 on Sat 15 Oct to 21:48 on Sun 16 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 07:19 on Sat 15 Oct to 10:19 on Sun 16 Oct. They are together from 19:16 on Sat 15 Oct to 10:19 on Sun 16 Oct.

    1983-10-15T11:16:22Z → 1983-10-16T02:19:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:27–17:41 on the 15th, 06:28–17:39 on the 16th.

    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 674 minutes on the 15th and 232 of 672 on the 16th.

    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 5728 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1983: Sunday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1983 falls on Sunday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 19:16 on Sat 15 Oct to 21:48 on Sun 16 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 232 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1983/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:16 → 19:1906:58681 min06:590 min15 Oct
Chicago06:16 → 21:1907:03667 min07:040 min15 Oct
Jersey City07:16 → 22:1907:07660 min07:080 min15 Oct
Port of Spain07:16 → 22:1905:55632 min05:550 min15 Oct
London12:16 → 03:1907:24352 min07:250 min15 Oct
Durban13:16 → 04:1905:19289 min05:180 min15 Oct
Dubai15:16 → 06:1906:17156 min06:172 min15 Oct
Delhi16:46 → 07:4906:2266 min06:2287 min16 Oct
Kolkata16:46 → 07:4905:3325 min05:33136 min16 Oct
Singapore19:16 → 10:1906:480 min06:48211 min16 Oct
Sydney21:16 → 12:1905:150 min05:14425 min16 Oct
Suva23:16 → 14:1905:380 min05:38522 min16 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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