Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2032

Thursday 14 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 187 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Wednesday 13 October

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

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

0 of 676 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 14 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:41
Śravaṇa ends 11:42:29
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

316 of 674 minutes covered, the first 316

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 20:49 on Wed 13 Oct to 18:17 on Thu 14 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 13:22 on Wed 13 Oct to 11:42 on Thu 14 Oct. They are together from 20:49 on Wed 13 Oct to 11:42 on Thu 14 Oct.

    2032-10-13T12:49:25Z → 2032-10-14T03:42:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:26–17:42 on the 13th, 06:27–17:41 on the 14th.

    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 676 minutes on the 13th and 316 of 674 on the 14th.

    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 11235 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2032: Thursday 14 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2032 falls on Thursday 14 October. Daśamī runs from 20:49 on Wed 13 Oct to 18:17 on Thu 14 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 316 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2032/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 14 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 14 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 14 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 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:49 → 20:4206:57683 min06:580 min13 Oct
Chicago07:49 → 22:4207:02622 min07:030 min13 Oct
Jersey City08:49 → 23:4207:06568 min07:070 min13 Oct
Port of Spain08:49 → 23:4205:55540 min05:550 min13 Oct
London13:49 → 04:4207:22261 min07:240 min13 Oct
Durban14:49 → 05:4205:20195 min05:1924 min13 Oct
Dubai16:49 → 07:4206:1664 min06:1786 min14 Oct
Delhi18:19 → 09:1206:210 min06:22171 min14 Oct
Kolkata18:19 → 09:1205:330 min05:33220 min14 Oct
Singapore20:49 → 11:4206:480 min06:48294 min14 Oct
Sydney23:49 → 14:4206:160 min06:15507 min14 Oct
Suva00:49 → 15:4205:390 min05:38604 min14 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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