Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2041

Saturday 5 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 44 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 Friday 4 October

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

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:56
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

0 of 699 minutes covered

Day of Saturday 5 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:55
Daśamī ends 18:38:28
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

696 of 696 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 21:03 on Fri 4 Oct to 18:38 on Sat 5 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 05:04 on Sat 5 Oct to 03:13 on Sun 6 Oct. They are together from 05:04 on Sat 5 Oct to 18:38 on Sat 5 Oct.

    2041-10-04T21:04:14Z → 2041-10-05T10:38:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:17–17:56 on the 4th, 06:18–17:55 on the 5th.

    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 699 minutes on the 4th and 696 of 696 on the 5th.

    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 2637 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2041: Saturday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2041 falls on Saturday 5 October. Daśamī runs from 21:03 on Fri 4 Oct to 18:38 on Sat 5 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 696 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2041/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 5 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 5 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 5 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 4thCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:04 → 03:3806:50268 min06:510 min4 Oct
Chicago16:04 → 05:3806:52142 min06:530 min4 Oct
Jersey City17:04 → 06:3806:5788 min06:580 min4 Oct
Port of Spain17:04 → 06:3805:5550 min05:5543 min4 Oct
London22:04 → 11:3807:070 min07:09270 min5 Oct
Durban23:04 → 12:3805:310 min05:30429 min5 Oct
Dubai01:04 → 14:3806:120 min06:13506 min5 Oct
Delhi02:34 → 16:0806:160 min06:17592 min5 Oct
Kolkata02:34 → 16:0805:290 min05:30639 min5 Oct
Singapore05:04 → 18:3806:510 min06:50708 min5 Oct
Sydney07:04 → 20:3805:290 min05:27656 min5 Oct
Suva09:04 → 22:3805:460 min05:45540 min5 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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