Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2022

Wednesday 5 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 204 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 Tuesday 4 October

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

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:57
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

0 of 700 minutes covered

Day of Wednesday 5 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:55
Daśamī ends 14:30:57
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

493 of 697 minutes covered, the first 493

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 16:51 on Tue 4 Oct to 14:31 on Wed 5 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:21 on Wed 5 Oct to 23:45 on Wed 5 Oct. They are together from 01:21 on Wed 5 Oct to 14:31 on Wed 5 Oct.

    2022-10-04T17:21:09Z → 2022-10-05T06:30:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:17–17:57 on the 4th, 06:18–17:55 on the 5th.

    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 700 minutes on the 4th and 493 of 697 on the 5th.

    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 12249 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2022: Wednesday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2022 falls on Wednesday 5 October. Daśamī runs from 16:51 on Tue 4 Oct to 14:31 on Wed 5 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 493 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2022/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 5 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 5 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 5 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 4thCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:21 → 23:3106:50492 min06:510 min4 Oct
Chicago12:21 → 01:3106:51366 min06:520 min4 Oct
Jersey City13:21 → 02:3106:56312 min06:570 min4 Oct
Port of Spain13:21 → 02:3105:55273 min05:550 min4 Oct
London18:21 → 07:3107:0610 min07:0823 min5 Oct
Durban19:21 → 08:3105:310 min05:30181 min5 Oct
Dubai21:21 → 10:3106:120 min06:13258 min5 Oct
Delhi22:51 → 12:0106:160 min06:16345 min5 Oct
Kolkata22:51 → 12:0105:290 min05:29391 min5 Oct
Singapore01:21 → 14:3106:510 min06:50460 min5 Oct
Sydney04:21 → 17:3106:290 min06:28663 min5 Oct
Suva05:21 → 18:3105:470 min05:46739 min5 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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