Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1986

Sunday 12 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 13 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 Sunday 12 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:24 sunrisesunset 17:45
Daśamī begins 06:37:32
06:0008:0010:0012:0014:0016:0018:00

667 of 681 minutes covered, the last 667

Day of Monday 13 October

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

06:25 sunrisesunset 17:43
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01

0 of 678 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 06:38 on Sun 12 Oct to 05:06 on Mon 13 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 02:04 on Sun 12 Oct to 01:11 on Mon 13 Oct. They are together from 06:38 on Sun 12 Oct to 01:11 on Mon 13 Oct.

    1986-10-11T22:37:33Z → 1986-10-12T17:11:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:24–17:45 on the 12th, 06:25–17:43 on the 13th.

    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 667 of 681 minutes on the 12th and 0 of 678 on the 13th.

    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 807 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1986: Sunday 12 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1986 falls on Sunday 12 October. Daśamī runs from 06:38 on Sun 12 Oct to 05:06 on Mon 13 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 667 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1986/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 12 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 12 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 12 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 11thCoveredSunrise 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:38 → 10:1106:55166 min06:56195 min12 Oct
Chicago17:38 → 12:1106:5838 min07:00312 min12 Oct
Jersey City18:38 → 13:1107:030 min07:04367 min12 Oct
Port of Spain18:38 → 13:1105:550 min05:55436 min12 Oct
London23:38 → 18:1107:170 min07:19652 min12 Oct
Durban00:38 → 19:1105:230 min05:22761 min12 Oct
Dubai02:38 → 21:1106:150 min06:16699 min12 Oct
Delhi04:08 → 22:4106:190 min06:20695 min12 Oct
Kolkata04:08 → 22:4105:310 min05:32702 min12 Oct
Singapore06:38 → 01:1106:490 min06:49725 min12 Oct
Sydney08:38 → 03:1105:200 min05:19568 min12 Oct
Suva10:38 → 05:1105:410 min05:40448 min12 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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