Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2037

Sunday 18 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 134 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 Saturday 17 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:37
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 667 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 18 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:31 sunrisesunset 17:35
Śravaṇa ends 08:44:18
06:0708:0710:0712:0714:0716:0718:07

134 of 665 minutes covered, the first 134

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 22:29 on Sat 17 Oct to 00:38 on Mon 19 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 06:21 on Sat 17 Oct to 08:44 on Sun 18 Oct. They are together from 22:29 on Sat 17 Oct to 08:44 on Sun 18 Oct.

    2037-10-17T14:29:07Z → 2037-10-18T00:44:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:30–17:37 on the 17th, 06:31–17:35 on the 18th.

    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 667 minutes on the 17th and 134 of 665 on the 18th.

    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 8015 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2037: Sunday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2037 falls on Sunday 18 October. Daśamī runs from 22:29 on Sat 17 Oct to 00:38 on Mon 19 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 134 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2037/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 18 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:29 → 17:4407:00615 min07:010 min17 Oct
Chicago09:29 → 19:4407:06516 min07:070 min17 Oct
Jersey City10:29 → 20:4407:10463 min07:120 min17 Oct
Port of Spain10:29 → 20:4405:55438 min05:550 min17 Oct
London15:29 → 01:4407:29153 min07:300 min17 Oct
Durban16:29 → 02:4405:1698 min05:150 min17 Oct
Dubai18:29 → 04:4406:180 min06:190 min18 Oct
Delhi19:59 → 06:1406:230 min06:240 min18 Oct
Kolkata19:59 → 06:1405:340 min05:3540 min18 Oct
Singapore22:29 → 08:4406:480 min06:48117 min18 Oct
Sydney01:29 → 11:4406:120 min06:11334 min18 Oct
Suva02:29 → 12:4405:360 min05:36429 min18 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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