Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1995

Tuesday 3 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 29 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 3 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:43  12:31 madhyāhna ends
10:5511:1911:4312:0712:3112:5513:19

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 4 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:43  12:31 madhyāhna ends
10:5511:1911:4312:0712:3112:5513:19

0 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 07:23 on Tue 3 Oct to 05:24 on Wed 4 Oct.

    1995-10-02T23:22:40Z → 1995-10-03T21:23:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:43–12:31 on the 3rd, 11:43–12:31 on the 4th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 3rd and 0 of 48 on the 4th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1750 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1995: Tuesday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1995 falls on Tuesday 3 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 07:23 on Tue 3 Oct to 05:24 on Wed 4 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 3 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredMadhyāhna 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:23 → 14:2412:180 min12:1848 min3 Oct
Chicago18:23 → 16:2412:160 min12:1548 min3 Oct
Jersey City19:23 → 17:2412:210 min12:2148 min3 Oct
Port of Spain19:23 → 17:2411:310 min11:3148 min3 Oct
London00:23 → 22:2412:260 min12:2548 min3 Oct
Durban01:23 → 23:2411:220 min11:2148 min3 Oct
Dubai03:23 → 01:2411:440 min11:4448 min3 Oct
Delhi04:53 → 02:5411:460 min11:4648 min3 Oct
Kolkata04:53 → 02:5411:020 min11:0248 min3 Oct
Singapore07:23 → 05:2412:300 min12:3048 min3 Oct
Sydney09:23 → 07:2411:210 min11:2148 min4 Oct
Suva11:23 → 09:2411:320 min11:3248 min4 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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