Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 1999

Tuesday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 179 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 Tuesday 19 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:31 sunrisesunset 17:35
Daśamī begins 13:17:54
06:0708:0710:0712:0714:0716:0718:07

257 of 664 minutes covered, the last 257

Day of Wednesday 20 October

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

06:32 sunrisesunset 17:34
06:0808:0810:0812:0814:0816:0818:08

0 of 662 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 13:18 on Tue 19 Oct to 13:53 on Wed 20 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 18:50 on Mon 18 Oct to 20:34 on Tue 19 Oct. They are together from 13:18 on Tue 19 Oct to 20:34 on Tue 19 Oct.

    1999-10-19T05:17:55Z → 1999-10-19T12:33:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:31–17:35 on the 19th, 06:32–17:34 on the 20th.

    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 257 of 664 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 662 on the 20th.

    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 10726 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1999: Tuesday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1999 falls on Tuesday 19 October. Daśamī runs from 13:18 on Tue 19 Oct to 13:53 on Wed 20 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 257 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1999/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 19 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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:18 → 05:3407:010 min07:020 min19 Oct
Chicago00:18 → 07:3407:0726 min07:090 min19 Oct
Jersey City01:18 → 08:3407:1282 min07:130 min19 Oct
Port of Spain01:18 → 08:3405:55158 min05:560 min19 Oct
London06:18 → 13:3407:31363 min07:320 min19 Oct
Durban07:18 → 14:3405:15436 min05:140 min19 Oct
Dubai09:18 → 16:3406:19436 min06:190 min19 Oct
Delhi10:48 → 18:0406:24420 min06:250 min19 Oct
Kolkata10:48 → 18:0405:35380 min05:350 min19 Oct
Singapore13:18 → 20:3406:47334 min06:470 min19 Oct
Sydney15:18 → 22:3405:10173 min05:090 min19 Oct
Suva17:18 → 00:3405:3550 min05:350 min19 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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