Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2045

Friday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 65 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 19 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 20 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

48 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 18:38 on Thu 19 Oct to 21:19 on Fri 20 Oct.

    2045-10-19T10:38:28Z → 2045-10-20T13:18:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 19th, 11:39–12:27 on the 20th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 19th and 48 of 48 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3875 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2045: Friday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2045 falls on Friday 20 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 18:38 on Thu 19 Oct to 21:19 on Fri 20 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2045/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 20 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:38 → 06:1912:1448 min12:130 min19 Oct
Chicago05:38 → 08:1912:1148 min12:110 min19 Oct
Jersey City06:38 → 09:1912:1748 min12:170 min19 Oct
Port of Spain06:38 → 09:1911:2748 min11:270 min19 Oct
London11:38 → 14:1912:2148 min12:2148 min19 Oct
Durban12:38 → 15:1911:170 min11:1748 min19 Oct
Dubai14:38 → 17:1911:400 min11:3948 min19 Oct
Delhi16:08 → 18:4911:420 min11:4248 min19 Oct
Kolkata16:08 → 18:4910:570 min10:5748 min19 Oct
Singapore18:38 → 21:1912:260 min12:2548 min19 Oct
Sydney21:38 → 00:1912:160 min12:1648 min20 Oct
Suva22:38 → 01:1911:270 min11:2748 min20 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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