Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1997

Saturday 11 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 13 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 Saturday 11 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:23 sunrisesunset 17:46
Daśamī begins 06:10:46
05:5907:5909:5911:5913:5915:5917:59

682 of 682 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 12 October

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

06:24 sunrisesunset 17:44
06:0008:0010:0012:0014:0016:0018:00

0 of 680 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 06:11 on Sat 11 Oct to 04:00 on Sun 12 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 03:04 on Sat 11 Oct to 01:41 on Sun 12 Oct. They are together from 06:11 on Sat 11 Oct to 01:41 on Sun 12 Oct.

    1997-10-10T22:10:46Z → 1997-10-11T17:41:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:23–17:46 on the 11th, 06:24–17:44 on the 12th.

    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 682 of 682 minutes on the 11th and 0 of 680 on the 12th.

    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 760 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1997: Saturday 11 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1997 falls on Saturday 11 October. Daśamī runs from 06:11 on Sat 11 Oct to 04:00 on Sun 12 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 682 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1997/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 11 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 11 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 11 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 10thCoveredSunrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:11 → 10:4106:55194 min06:55226 min11 Oct
Chicago17:11 → 12:4106:5866 min06:59343 min11 Oct
Jersey City18:11 → 13:4107:0313 min07:04398 min11 Oct
Port of Spain18:11 → 13:4105:550 min05:55466 min11 Oct
London23:11 → 18:4107:160 min07:18658 min11 Oct
Durban00:11 → 19:4105:240 min05:23760 min11 Oct
Dubai02:11 → 21:4106:150 min06:15700 min11 Oct
Delhi03:41 → 23:1106:190 min06:20696 min11 Oct
Kolkata03:41 → 23:1105:310 min05:32703 min11 Oct
Singapore06:11 → 01:4106:490 min06:49725 min11 Oct
Sydney08:11 → 03:4105:210 min05:20594 min11 Oct
Suva10:11 → 05:4105:420 min05:41475 min11 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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