Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1989

Tuesday 10 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 99 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 Monday 9 October

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

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:49
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

0 of 688 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 10 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:22 sunrisesunset 17:47
Śravaṇa ends 19:26:03
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58

685 of 685 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 20:42 on Mon 9 Oct to 19:36 on Tue 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 19:50 on Mon 9 Oct to 19:26 on Tue 10 Oct. They are together from 20:42 on Mon 9 Oct to 19:26 on Tue 10 Oct.

    1989-10-09T12:42:19Z → 1989-10-10T11:26:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–17:49 on the 9th, 06:22–17:47 on the 10th.

    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 688 minutes on the 9th and 685 of 685 on the 10th.

    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 5915 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1989: Tuesday 10 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1989 falls on Tuesday 10 October. Daśamī runs from 20:42 on Mon 9 Oct to 19:36 on Tue 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 685 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1989/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 10 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 10 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 10 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 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:42 → 04:2606:54692 min06:550 min9 Oct
Chicago07:42 → 06:2606:57636 min06:580 min9 Oct
Jersey City08:42 → 07:2607:01583 min07:0224 min9 Oct
Port of Spain08:42 → 07:2605:55549 min05:5591 min9 Oct
London13:42 → 12:2607:15278 min07:16310 min10 Oct
Durban14:42 → 13:2605:25199 min05:24482 min10 Oct
Dubai16:42 → 15:2606:1475 min06:15551 min10 Oct
Delhi18:12 → 16:5606:180 min06:19637 min10 Oct
Kolkata18:12 → 16:5605:310 min05:31685 min10 Oct
Singapore20:42 → 19:2606:490 min06:49725 min10 Oct
Sydney22:42 → 21:2605:220 min05:21763 min10 Oct
Suva00:42 → 23:2605:420 min05:42744 min10 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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