Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2006

Monday 2 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 11 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 Monday 2 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 Tuesday 3 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 05:27 on Mon 2 Oct to 03:32 on Tue 3 Oct.

    2006-10-01T21:27:29Z → 2006-10-02T19:32:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:43–12:31 on the 2nd, 11:43–12:31 on the 3rd.

    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 2nd and 0 of 48 on the 3rd.

    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 642 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2006: Monday 2 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2006 falls on Monday 2 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 05:27 on Mon 2 Oct to 03:32 on Tue 3 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2006/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 2 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 2 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 2 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 1stCoveredMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:27 → 12:3212:180 min12:1814 min2 Oct
Chicago16:27 → 14:3212:160 min12:1648 min2 Oct
Jersey City17:27 → 15:3212:220 min12:2148 min2 Oct
Port of Spain17:27 → 15:3211:320 min11:3148 min2 Oct
London22:27 → 20:3212:260 min12:2548 min2 Oct
Durban23:27 → 21:3211:220 min11:2248 min2 Oct
Dubai01:27 → 23:3211:440 min11:4448 min2 Oct
Delhi02:57 → 01:0211:470 min11:4648 min2 Oct
Kolkata02:57 → 01:0211:020 min11:0248 min2 Oct
Singapore05:27 → 03:3212:300 min12:3048 min2 Oct
Sydney07:27 → 05:3211:210 min11:2148 min3 Oct
Suva09:27 → 07:3211:320 min11:3248 min3 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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