Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2036

Tuesday 30 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 109 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 29 September

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

06:13 sunrisesunset 18:04
05:4907:4909:4911:4913:4915:4917:4919:49

0 of 711 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 30 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:02
Daśamī ends 08:02:38
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

109 of 708 minutes covered, the first 109

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 05:27 on Mon 29 Sep to 08:03 on Tue 30 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 01:50 on Tue 30 Sep to 04:58 on Wed 1 Oct. They are together from 01:50 on Tue 30 Sep to 08:03 on Tue 30 Sep.

    2036-09-29T17:49:32Z → 2036-09-30T00:02:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:13–18:04 on the 29th, 06:14–18:02 on the 30th.

    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 711 minutes on the 29th and 109 of 708 on the 30th.

    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 6546 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2036: Tuesday 30 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2036 falls on Tuesday 30 September. Daśamī runs from 05:27 on Mon 29 Sep to 08:03 on Tue 30 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 109 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2036/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 30 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 30 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 30 Sep
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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:50 → 17:0306:47373 min06:480 min29 Sep
Chicago12:50 → 19:0306:46345 min06:470 min29 Sep
Jersey City13:50 → 20:0306:52291 min06:530 min29 Sep
Port of Spain13:50 → 20:0305:55248 min05:550 min29 Sep
London18:50 → 01:0306:590 min07:010 min29 Sep
Durban19:50 → 02:0305:370 min05:350 min29 Sep
Dubai21:50 → 04:0306:100 min06:110 min29 Sep
Delhi23:20 → 05:3306:130 min06:140 min29 Sep
Kolkata23:20 → 05:3305:280 min05:285 min30 Sep
Singapore01:50 → 08:0306:520 min06:5271 min30 Sep
Sydney03:50 → 10:0305:350 min05:34269 min30 Sep
Suva05:50 → 12:0305:500 min05:49373 min30 Sep
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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