Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1988

Thursday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 8 min 52 s.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Wednesday 19 October

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

06:32 sunrisesunset 17:34
06:0808:0810:0812:0814:0816:0818:08

0 of 662 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 20 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:33 sunrisesunset 17:33
Daśamī begins 06:23:46Śravaṇa ends 10:15:38
06:0908:0910:0912:0914:0916:0918:09

223 of 660 minutes covered, the first 223

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 06:24 on Thu 20 Oct to 04:04 on Fri 21 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 11:29 on Wed 19 Oct to 10:16 on Thu 20 Oct. They are together from 06:24 on Thu 20 Oct to 10:16 on Thu 20 Oct.

    1988-10-19T22:23:47Z → 1988-10-20T02:15:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:32–17:34 on the 19th, 06:33–17:33 on the 20th.

    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 662 minutes on the 19th and 223 of 660 on the 20th.

    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 532 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1988: Thursday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1988 falls on Thursday 20 October. Daśamī runs from 06:24 on Thu 20 Oct to 04:04 on Fri 21 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 223 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1988/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 20 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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:24 → 19:1607:02170 min07:030 min19 Oct
Chicago17:24 → 21:1607:0838 min07:090 min19 Oct
Jersey City18:24 → 22:1607:120 min07:140 min20 Oct
Port of Spain18:24 → 22:1605:560 min05:560 min20 Oct
London23:24 → 03:1607:320 min07:340 min20 Oct
Durban00:24 → 04:1605:140 min05:130 min20 Oct
Dubai02:24 → 06:1606:190 min06:200 min20 Oct
Delhi03:54 → 07:4606:250 min06:2580 min20 Oct
Kolkata03:54 → 07:4605:350 min05:35130 min20 Oct
Singapore06:24 → 10:1606:470 min06:47208 min20 Oct
Sydney08:24 → 12:1605:090 min05:08232 min20 Oct
Suva10:24 → 14:1605:350 min05:34232 min20 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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