Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2002

Tuesday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 19 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 14 October

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

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

0 of 676 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 15 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:40
Śravaṇa ends 17:59:42
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

673 of 673 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 02:31 on Tue 15 Oct to 03:54 on Wed 16 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:15 on Mon 14 Oct to 18:00 on Tue 15 Oct. They are together from 02:31 on Tue 15 Oct to 18:00 on Tue 15 Oct.

    2002-10-14T18:30:41Z → 2002-10-15T09:59:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:26–17:42 on the 14th, 06:27–17:40 on the 15th.

    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 676 minutes on the 14th and 673 of 673 on the 15th.

    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 1162 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2002: Tuesday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2002 falls on Tuesday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 02:31 on Tue 15 Oct to 03:54 on Wed 16 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 673 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2002/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 15 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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:31 → 03:0006:58409 min06:580 min14 Oct
Chicago13:31 → 05:0007:02280 min07:030 min14 Oct
Jersey City14:31 → 06:0007:07227 min07:080 min14 Oct
Port of Spain14:31 → 06:0005:55198 min05:555 min14 Oct
London19:31 → 11:0007:230 min07:24215 min15 Oct
Durban20:31 → 12:0005:200 min05:19401 min15 Oct
Dubai22:31 → 14:0006:170 min06:17463 min15 Oct
Delhi00:01 → 15:3006:210 min06:22548 min15 Oct
Kolkata00:01 → 15:3005:330 min05:33597 min15 Oct
Singapore02:31 → 18:0006:480 min06:48672 min15 Oct
Sydney04:31 → 20:0005:160 min05:15773 min15 Oct
Suva06:31 → 22:0005:390 min05:38696 min15 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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