Day of Thursday 13 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:25 sunrisesunset 17:43
Daśamī begins 14:00:38
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01
223 of 678 minutes covered, the last 223
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1994
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 13 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
223 of 678 minutes covered, the last 223
Day of Friday 14 October
Qualifies with 52 of 676 minutes. Not taken.
52 of 676 minutes covered, the first 52
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 14:01 on Thu 13 Oct to 13:51 on Fri 14 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 06:58 on Thu 13 Oct to 07:18 on Fri 14 Oct. They are together from 14:01 on Thu 13 Oct to 07:18 on Fri 14 Oct.
1994-10-13T06:00:39Z → 1994-10-13T23:18:03Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:25–17:43 on the 13th, 06:26–17:42 on the 14th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 223 of 678 minutes on the 13th and 52 of 676 on the 14th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 3116 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1994: Thursday 13 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1994 falls on Thursday 13 October. Daśamī runs from 14:01 on Thu 13 Oct to 13:51 on Fri 14 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 223 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 52 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Thu 13 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 13 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 13 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 13th | Covered | Sunrise 14th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 23:01 → 16:18 | 06:57 | 561 min | 06:58 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Chicago | 01:01 → 18:18 | 07:01 | 671 min | 07:02 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Jersey City | 02:01 → 19:18 | 07:05 | 674 min | 07:07 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 02:01 → 19:18 | 05:55 | 714 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| London | 07:01 → 00:18 | 07:21 | 651 min | 07:23 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Durban | 08:01 → 01:18 | 05:21 | 603 min | 05:20 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Dubai | 10:01 → 03:18 | 06:16 | 473 min | 06:17 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Delhi | 11:31 → 04:48 | 06:21 | 383 min | 06:21 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Kolkata | 11:31 → 04:48 | 05:32 | 343 min | 05:33 | 0 min | 13 Oct |
| Singapore | 14:01 → 07:18 | 06:49 | 293 min | 06:48 | 30 min | 13 Oct |
| Sydney | 16:01 → 09:18 | 05:17 | 126 min | 05:16 | 242 min | 14 Oct |
| Suva | 18:01 → 11:18 | 05:40 | 5 min | 05:39 | 339 min | 14 Oct |