Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2007

Sunday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 118 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 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

Day of Sunday 21 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:33 sunrisesunset 17:32
Śravaṇa ends 08:35:46
06:0908:0910:0912:0914:0916:0918:09

123 of 659 minutes covered, the first 123

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 04:35 on Sun 21 Oct to 03:36 on Mon 22 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 08:15 on Sat 20 Oct to 08:36 on Sun 21 Oct. They are together from 04:35 on Sun 21 Oct to 08:36 on Sun 21 Oct.

    2007-10-20T20:34:48Z → 2007-10-21T00:35:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:32–17:34 on the 20th, 06:33–17:32 on the 21st.

    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 662 minutes on the 20th and 123 of 659 on the 21st.

    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 7095 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2007: Sunday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2007 falls on Sunday 21 October. Daśamī runs from 04:35 on Sun 21 Oct to 03:36 on Mon 22 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 123 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2007/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 21 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 20thCoveredSunrise 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:35 → 17:3607:02241 min07:030 min20 Oct
Chicago15:35 → 19:3607:09147 min07:100 min20 Oct
Jersey City16:35 → 20:3607:1394 min07:140 min20 Oct
Port of Spain16:35 → 20:3605:5671 min05:560 min20 Oct
London21:35 → 01:3607:330 min07:340 min21 Oct
Durban22:35 → 02:3605:130 min05:120 min21 Oct
Dubai00:35 → 04:3606:190 min06:200 min21 Oct
Delhi02:05 → 06:0606:250 min06:250 min21 Oct
Kolkata02:05 → 06:0605:350 min05:3630 min21 Oct
Singapore04:35 → 08:3606:470 min06:47109 min21 Oct
Sydney06:35 → 10:3605:090 min05:08241 min21 Oct
Suva08:35 → 12:3605:350 min05:34241 min21 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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