Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2012

Wednesday 24 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 280 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 Tuesday 23 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 24 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

48 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 22:08 on Tue 23 Oct to 21:53 on Wed 24 Oct.

    2012-10-23T14:08:22Z → 2012-10-24T13:52:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 23rd, 11:38–12:26 on the 24th.

    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 0 of 48 minutes on the 23rd and 48 of 48 on the 24th.

    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 16794 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2012: Wednesday 24 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2012 falls on Wednesday 24 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 22:08 on Tue 23 Oct to 21:53 on Wed 24 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2012/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 24 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 24 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 24 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 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:08 → 06:5312:1348 min12:130 min23 Oct
Chicago09:08 → 08:5312:1148 min12:100 min23 Oct
Jersey City10:08 → 09:5312:1648 min12:160 min23 Oct
Port of Spain10:08 → 09:5311:2648 min11:260 min23 Oct
London15:08 → 14:5312:200 min12:2048 min24 Oct
Durban16:08 → 15:5311:160 min11:1648 min24 Oct
Dubai18:08 → 17:5311:390 min11:3948 min24 Oct
Delhi19:38 → 19:2311:410 min11:4148 min24 Oct
Kolkata19:38 → 19:2310:570 min10:5748 min24 Oct
Singapore22:08 → 21:5312:250 min12:2548 min24 Oct
Sydney01:08 → 00:5312:160 min12:1648 min24 Oct
Suva03:08 → 02:5312:270 min12:2748 min24 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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