Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2010

Sunday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 164 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 16 October

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

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

0 of 671 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:37
Śravaṇa ends 09:13:18
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

164 of 668 minutes covered, the first 164

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 20:30 on Sat 16 Oct to 22:58 on Sun 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 06:24 on Sat 16 Oct to 09:13 on Sun 17 Oct. They are together from 20:30 on Sat 16 Oct to 09:13 on Sun 17 Oct.

    2010-10-16T12:30:18Z → 2010-10-17T01:13:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:28–17:39 on the 16th, 06:29–17:37 on the 17th.

    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 671 minutes on the 16th and 164 of 668 on the 17th.

    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 9842 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2010: Sunday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2010 falls on Sunday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 20:30 on Sat 16 Oct to 22:58 on Sun 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 164 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2010/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 17 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 16thCoveredSunrise 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:30 → 18:1306:59674 min07:000 min16 Oct
Chicago07:30 → 20:1307:04637 min07:050 min16 Oct
Jersey City08:30 → 21:1307:09584 min07:100 min16 Oct
Port of Spain08:30 → 21:1305:55558 min05:550 min16 Oct
London13:30 → 02:1307:26275 min07:280 min16 Oct
Durban14:30 → 03:1305:17216 min05:160 min16 Oct
Dubai16:30 → 05:1306:1881 min06:180 min16 Oct
Delhi18:00 → 06:4306:230 min06:2320 min17 Oct
Kolkata18:00 → 06:4305:340 min05:3469 min17 Oct
Singapore20:30 → 09:1306:480 min06:48146 min17 Oct
Sydney23:30 → 12:1306:140 min06:12361 min17 Oct
Suva00:30 → 13:1305:370 min05:37457 min17 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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