Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1984

Thursday 4 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 69 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 Thursday 4 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:56
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

699 of 699 minutes covered

Day of Friday 5 October

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

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:55
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

0 of 697 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 18:59 on Wed 3 Oct to 20:27 on Thu 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 05:08 on Thu 4 Oct to 07:21 on Fri 5 Oct. They are together from 05:08 on Thu 4 Oct to 20:27 on Thu 4 Oct.

    1984-10-03T21:07:46Z → 1984-10-04T12:26:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:17–17:56 on the 4th, 06:18–17:55 on the 5th.

    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 699 of 699 minutes on the 4th and 0 of 697 on the 5th.

    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 4144 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1984: Thursday 4 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1984 falls on Thursday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 18:59 on Wed 3 Oct to 20:27 on Thu 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 699 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1984/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 4 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 4 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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:08 → 05:2706:49266 min06:500 min3 Oct
Chicago16:08 → 07:2706:50140 min06:5136 min3 Oct
Jersey City17:08 → 08:2706:5587 min06:5690 min4 Oct
Port of Spain17:08 → 08:2705:5547 min05:55152 min4 Oct
London22:08 → 13:2707:050 min07:07380 min4 Oct
Durban23:08 → 14:2705:320 min05:31536 min4 Oct
Dubai01:08 → 16:2706:120 min06:12615 min4 Oct
Delhi02:38 → 17:5706:150 min06:16701 min4 Oct
Kolkata02:38 → 17:5705:290 min05:29712 min4 Oct
Singapore05:08 → 20:2706:510 min06:51725 min4 Oct
Sydney07:08 → 22:2705:300 min05:29652 min4 Oct
Suva09:08 → 00:2705:470 min05:46536 min4 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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