Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2038

Thursday 7 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 67 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 Thursday 7 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:52
Śravaṇa begins 10:00:19
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

472 of 692 minutes covered, the last 472

Day of Friday 8 October

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

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:50
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

0 of 690 minutes covered

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 05:04 on Thu 7 Oct to 05:14 on Fri 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:00 on Thu 7 Oct to 10:55 on Fri 8 Oct. They are together from 10:00 on Thu 7 Oct to 05:14 on Fri 8 Oct.

    2038-10-07T02:00:19Z → 2038-10-07T21:13:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–17:52 on the 7th, 06:21–17:50 on the 8th.

    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 472 of 692 minutes on the 7th and 0 of 690 on the 8th.

    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 4004 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2038: Thursday 7 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2038 falls on Thursday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 05:04 on Thu 7 Oct to 05:14 on Fri 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 472 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2038/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 7 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 7thCoveredSunrise 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:00 → 14:1406:52442 min06:530 min7 Oct
Chicago21:00 → 16:1406:55559 min06:560 min7 Oct
Jersey City22:00 → 17:1406:59614 min07:010 min7 Oct
Port of Spain22:00 → 17:1405:55679 min05:550 min7 Oct
London03:00 → 22:1407:11673 min07:130 min7 Oct
Durban04:00 → 23:1405:27753 min05:260 min7 Oct
Dubai06:00 → 01:1406:14706 min06:140 min7 Oct
Delhi07:30 → 02:4406:17630 min06:180 min7 Oct
Kolkata07:30 → 02:4405:30588 min05:310 min7 Oct
Singapore10:00 → 05:1406:50535 min06:500 min7 Oct
Sydney13:00 → 08:1406:25362 min06:24110 min7 Oct
Suva14:00 → 09:1405:44244 min05:43211 min7 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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