Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1987

Friday 2 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 120 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 Friday 2 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:01
Śravaṇa begins 16:00:17
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

120 of 706 minutes covered, the last 120

Day of Saturday 3 October

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

06:15 sunrisesunset 17:59
05:5107:5109:5111:5113:5115:5117:5119:51

0 of 704 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 03:18 on Fri 2 Oct to 00:47 on Sat 3 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:00 on Fri 2 Oct to 14:10 on Sat 3 Oct. They are together from 16:00 on Fri 2 Oct to 00:47 on Sat 3 Oct.

    1987-10-02T08:00:17Z → 1987-10-02T16:46:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:14–18:01 on the 2nd, 06:15–17:59 on the 3rd.

    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 120 of 706 minutes on the 2nd and 0 of 704 on the 3rd.

    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 7218 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1987: Friday 2 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1987 falls on Friday 2 October. Daśamī runs from 03:18 on Fri 2 Oct to 00:47 on Sat 3 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 120 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1987/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 2 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 2 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 2 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 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:00 → 09:4706:48179 min06:490 min2 Oct
Chicago03:00 → 11:4706:48298 min06:490 min2 Oct
Jersey City04:00 → 12:4706:54353 min06:550 min2 Oct
Port of Spain04:00 → 12:4705:55412 min05:550 min2 Oct
London09:00 → 17:4707:02526 min07:040 min2 Oct
Durban10:00 → 18:4705:34477 min05:330 min2 Oct
Dubai12:00 → 20:4706:11365 min06:120 min2 Oct
Delhi13:30 → 22:1706:14276 min06:150 min2 Oct
Kolkata13:30 → 22:1705:28233 min05:290 min2 Oct
Singapore16:00 → 00:4706:51177 min06:510 min2 Oct
Sydney18:00 → 02:4705:320 min05:310 min2 Oct
Suva20:00 → 04:4705:490 min05:480 min2 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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