Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1985

Tuesday 22 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 15 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 Tuesday 22 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:34 sunrisesunset 17:30
Daśamī begins 15:43:43Śravaṇa ends 15:58:47
06:1008:1010:1012:1014:1016:1018:10

15 of 656 minutes covered, the first 15

Day of Wednesday 23 October

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

06:35 sunrisesunset 17:29
06:1108:1110:1112:1114:1116:1118:11

0 of 654 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 15:44 on Tue 22 Oct to 16:12 on Wed 23 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:30 on Mon 21 Oct to 15:59 on Tue 22 Oct. They are together from 15:44 on Tue 22 Oct to 15:59 on Tue 22 Oct.

    1985-10-22T07:43:43Z → 1985-10-22T07:58:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:34–17:30 on the 22nd, 06:35–17:29 on the 23rd.

    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 15 of 656 minutes on the 22nd and 0 of 654 on the 23rd.

    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 904 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1985: Tuesday 22 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1985 falls on Tuesday 22 October. Daśamī runs from 15:44 on Tue 22 Oct to 16:12 on Wed 23 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 15 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1985/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 22 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 22 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 22 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 22ndCoveredSunrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:44 → 00:5907:040 min07:050 min22 Oct
Chicago02:44 → 02:5907:110 min07:130 min22 Oct
Jersey City03:44 → 03:5907:160 min07:170 min22 Oct
Port of Spain03:44 → 03:5905:560 min05:560 min22 Oct
London08:44 → 08:5907:3715 min07:380 min22 Oct
Durban09:44 → 09:5905:1115 min05:100 min22 Oct
Dubai11:44 → 11:5906:2115 min06:210 min22 Oct
Delhi13:14 → 13:2906:2615 min06:270 min22 Oct
Kolkata13:14 → 13:2905:3615 min05:370 min22 Oct
Singapore15:44 → 15:5906:4715 min06:470 min22 Oct
Sydney17:44 → 17:5905:0615 min05:050 min22 Oct
Suva19:44 → 19:5905:330 min05:320 min23 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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