Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2040

Monday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 196 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 Sunday 14 October

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

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:41
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

0 of 674 minutes covered

Day of Monday 15 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
Śravaṇa ends 14:23:21
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

475 of 671 minutes covered, the first 475

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 01:20 on Mon 15 Oct to 22:57 on Mon 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:59 on Sun 14 Oct to 14:23 on Mon 15 Oct. They are together from 01:20 on Mon 15 Oct to 14:23 on Mon 15 Oct.

    2040-10-14T17:19:43Z → 2040-10-15T06:23:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:27–17:41 on the 14th, 06:28–17:39 on the 15th.

    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 674 minutes on the 14th and 475 of 671 on the 15th.

    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 11752 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2040: Monday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2040 falls on Monday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 01:20 on Mon 15 Oct to 22:57 on Mon 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 475 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2040/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 15 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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:20 → 23:2306:58479 min06:590 min14 Oct
Chicago12:20 → 01:2307:03350 min07:040 min14 Oct
Jersey City13:20 → 02:2307:07297 min07:090 min14 Oct
Port of Spain13:20 → 02:2305:55269 min05:550 min14 Oct
London18:20 → 07:2307:240 min07:260 min15 Oct
Durban19:20 → 08:2305:190 min05:18186 min15 Oct
Dubai21:20 → 10:2306:170 min06:17246 min15 Oct
Delhi22:50 → 11:5306:220 min06:22331 min15 Oct
Kolkata22:50 → 11:5305:330 min05:33380 min15 Oct
Singapore01:20 → 14:2306:480 min06:48455 min15 Oct
Sydney04:20 → 17:2306:150 min06:14669 min15 Oct
Suva05:20 → 18:2305:380 min05:37749 min15 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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