Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2020

Sunday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 7 min 19 s.

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 Sunday 25 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

Midday of Monday 26 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
Daśamī ends 11:30:31
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 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 10:12 on Sun 25 Oct to 11:31 on Mon 26 Oct.

    2020-10-25T02:12:17Z → 2020-10-26T03:30:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 25th, 11:38–12:26 on the 26th.

    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 48 of 48 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 48 on the 26th.

    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 439 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2020: Sunday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2020 falls on Sunday 25 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 10:12 on Sun 25 Oct to 11:31 on Mon 26 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2020/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 25 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 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:12 → 20:3112:1348 min12:130 min25 Oct
Chicago21:12 → 22:3112:1048 min12:100 min25 Oct
Jersey City22:12 → 23:3112:1648 min12:160 min25 Oct
Port of Spain22:12 → 23:3111:2648 min11:260 min25 Oct
London02:12 → 03:3111:2048 min11:200 min25 Oct
Durban04:12 → 05:3111:1648 min11:160 min25 Oct
Dubai06:12 → 07:3111:3948 min11:390 min25 Oct
Delhi07:42 → 09:0111:4148 min11:410 min25 Oct
Kolkata07:42 → 09:0110:5648 min10:560 min25 Oct
Singapore10:12 → 11:3112:2548 min12:250 min25 Oct
Sydney13:12 → 14:3112:160 min12:1548 min26 Oct
Suva14:12 → 15:3111:270 min11:2648 min26 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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