Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2019

Tuesday 8 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 31 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 7 October

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

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:52
Śravaṇa begins 19:55:07
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

0 of 693 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 8 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:51
Daśamī ends 17:20:21
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

660 of 691 minutes covered, the first 660

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 15:08 on Mon 7 Oct to 17:20 on Tue 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 19:55 on Mon 7 Oct to 22:42 on Tue 8 Oct. They are together from 19:55 on Mon 7 Oct to 17:20 on Tue 8 Oct.

    2019-10-07T11:55:07Z → 2019-10-08T09:20:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:19–17:52 on the 7th, 06:20–17:51 on the 8th.

    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 693 minutes on the 7th and 660 of 691 on the 8th.

    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 1833 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2019: Tuesday 8 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2019 falls on Tuesday 8 October. Daśamī runs from 15:08 on Mon 7 Oct to 17:20 on Tue 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 660 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2019/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 8 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 8 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 8 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 7thCoveredSunrise 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:55 → 02:2006:52697 min06:530 min7 Oct
Chicago06:55 → 04:2006:54687 min06:550 min7 Oct
Jersey City07:55 → 05:2006:59634 min07:000 min7 Oct
Port of Spain07:55 → 05:2005:55598 min05:550 min7 Oct
London12:55 → 10:2007:11330 min07:12188 min7 Oct
Durban13:55 → 11:2005:28245 min05:27354 min8 Oct
Dubai15:55 → 13:2006:13125 min06:14427 min8 Oct
Delhi17:25 → 14:5006:1735 min06:18513 min8 Oct
Kolkata17:25 → 14:5005:300 min05:30560 min8 Oct
Singapore19:55 → 17:2006:500 min06:50631 min8 Oct
Sydney22:55 → 20:2006:250 min06:24758 min8 Oct
Suva23:55 → 21:2005:440 min05:43741 min8 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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