Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2009

Tuesday 29 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 61 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 28 September

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

06:11 sunrisesunset 18:06
05:4707:4709:4711:4713:4715:4717:4719:47

0 of 715 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 29 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:12 sunrisesunset 18:04
Daśamī ends 07:12:49
05:4807:4809:4811:4813:4815:4817:4819:48

61 of 712 minutes covered, the first 61

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 04:36 on Mon 28 Sep to 07:13 on Tue 29 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 03:14 on Tue 29 Sep to 06:10 on Wed 30 Sep. They are together from 03:14 on Tue 29 Sep to 07:13 on Tue 29 Sep.

    2009-09-28T19:13:56Z → 2009-09-28T23:12:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:11–18:06 on the 28th, 06:12–18:04 on the 29th.

    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 715 minutes on the 28th and 61 of 712 on the 29th.

    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 3639 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2009: Tuesday 29 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2009 falls on Tuesday 29 September. Daśamī runs from 04:36 on Mon 28 Sep to 07:13 on Tue 29 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 61 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2009/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 29 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 29 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 29 Sep
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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:14 → 16:1306:46239 min06:460 min28 Sep
Chicago14:14 → 18:1306:45239 min06:460 min28 Sep
Jersey City15:14 → 19:1306:50209 min06:510 min28 Sep
Port of Spain15:14 → 19:1305:55164 min05:550 min28 Sep
London20:14 → 00:1306:570 min06:580 min28 Sep
Durban21:14 → 01:1305:380 min05:370 min28 Sep
Dubai23:14 → 03:1306:100 min06:100 min28 Sep
Delhi00:44 → 04:4306:130 min06:130 min28 Sep
Kolkata00:44 → 04:4305:270 min05:280 min28 Sep
Singapore03:14 → 07:1306:520 min06:5221 min29 Sep
Sydney05:14 → 09:1305:370 min05:36217 min29 Sep
Suva07:14 → 11:1305:510 min05:51239 min29 Sep
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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