Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1992

Tuesday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 124 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 5 October

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

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:55
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

0 of 697 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 6 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:53
Daśamī ends 15:48:59
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

570 of 694 minutes covered, the first 570

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 13:20 on Mon 5 Oct to 15:49 on Tue 6 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 20:28 on Mon 5 Oct to 23:29 on Tue 6 Oct. They are together from 20:28 on Mon 5 Oct to 15:49 on Tue 6 Oct.

    1992-10-05T12:28:20Z → 1992-10-06T07:49:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:18–17:55 on the 5th, 06:19–17:53 on the 6th.

    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 697 minutes on the 5th and 570 of 694 on the 6th.

    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 7448 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1992: Tuesday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1992 falls on Tuesday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 13:20 on Mon 5 Oct to 15:49 on Tue 6 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 570 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1992/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 6 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 5thCoveredSunrise 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:28 → 00:4906:51700 min06:520 min5 Oct
Chicago07:28 → 02:4906:52656 min06:540 min5 Oct
Jersey City08:28 → 03:4906:58603 min06:590 min5 Oct
Port of Spain08:28 → 03:4905:55565 min05:550 min5 Oct
London13:28 → 08:4907:08300 min07:1099 min5 Oct
Durban14:28 → 09:4905:30211 min05:28261 min6 Oct
Dubai16:28 → 11:4906:1393 min06:13336 min6 Oct
Delhi17:58 → 13:1906:164 min06:17422 min6 Oct
Kolkata17:58 → 13:1905:300 min05:30469 min6 Oct
Singapore20:28 → 15:4906:500 min06:50539 min6 Oct
Sydney22:28 → 17:4905:270 min05:26743 min6 Oct
Suva00:28 → 19:4905:450 min05:45740 min6 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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