Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1991

Thursday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 20 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 Thursday 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
Daśamī begins 17:17:38
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

20 of 669 minutes covered, the last 20

Day of Friday 18 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:37
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 667 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 17:18 on Thu 17 Oct to 19:17 on Fri 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:40 on Thu 17 Oct to 04:26 on Fri 18 Oct. They are together from 17:18 on Thu 17 Oct to 04:26 on Fri 18 Oct.

    1991-10-17T09:17:38Z → 1991-10-17T20:25:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:38 on the 17th, 06:30–17:37 on the 18th.

    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 20 of 669 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 667 on the 18th.

    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 1218 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1991: Thursday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1991 falls on Thursday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 17:18 on Thu 17 Oct to 19:17 on Fri 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 20 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1991/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 17 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:18 → 13:2607:00386 min07:010 min17 Oct
Chicago04:18 → 15:2607:05501 min07:060 min17 Oct
Jersey City05:18 → 16:2607:09556 min07:110 min17 Oct
Port of Spain05:18 → 16:2605:55630 min05:550 min17 Oct
London10:18 → 21:2607:27466 min07:290 min17 Oct
Durban11:18 → 22:2605:17409 min05:160 min17 Oct
Dubai13:18 → 00:2606:18273 min06:180 min17 Oct
Delhi14:48 → 01:5606:23182 min06:240 min17 Oct
Kolkata14:48 → 01:5605:34142 min05:340 min17 Oct
Singapore17:18 → 04:2606:4895 min06:480 min17 Oct
Sydney19:18 → 06:2605:130 min05:1274 min18 Oct
Suva21:18 → 08:2605:370 min05:36170 min18 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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