Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2014

Saturday 4 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 218 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 Friday 3 October

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

06:16 sunrisesunset 17:58
05:5207:5209:5211:5213:5215:5217:5219:52

0 of 703 minutes covered

Day of Saturday 4 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:57
Daśamī ends 09:54:42
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

218 of 700 minutes covered, the first 218

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 12:28 on Fri 3 Oct to 09:55 on Sat 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 22:47 on Fri 3 Oct to 20:49 on Sat 4 Oct. They are together from 22:47 on Fri 3 Oct to 09:55 on Sat 4 Oct.

    2014-10-03T14:47:00Z → 2014-10-04T01:54:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:16–17:58 on the 3rd, 06:17–17:57 on the 4th.

    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 703 minutes on the 3rd and 218 of 700 on the 4th.

    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 13084 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2014: Saturday 4 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2014 falls on Saturday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 12:28 on Fri 3 Oct to 09:55 on Sat 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 218 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2014/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 4 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 4 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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:47 → 18:5506:49647 min06:500 min3 Oct
Chicago09:47 → 20:5506:50522 min06:510 min3 Oct
Jersey City10:47 → 21:5506:55468 min06:560 min3 Oct
Port of Spain10:47 → 21:5505:55428 min05:550 min3 Oct
London15:47 → 02:5507:04167 min07:060 min3 Oct
Durban16:47 → 03:5505:3271 min05:310 min3 Oct
Dubai18:47 → 05:5506:120 min06:120 min3 Oct
Delhi20:17 → 07:2506:150 min06:1669 min4 Oct
Kolkata20:17 → 07:2505:290 min05:29116 min4 Oct
Singapore22:47 → 09:5506:510 min06:51184 min4 Oct
Sydney00:47 → 11:5505:310 min05:29386 min4 Oct
Suva02:47 → 13:5505:470 min05:47488 min4 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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