Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2046

Tuesday 9 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 115 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 Monday 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

Day of Tuesday 9 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:22 sunrisesunset 17:49
Daśamī ends 19:43:31
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58

687 of 687 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 18:02 on Mon 8 Oct to 19:44 on Tue 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 20:24 on Mon 8 Oct to 22:41 on Tue 9 Oct. They are together from 20:24 on Mon 8 Oct to 19:44 on Tue 9 Oct.

    2046-10-08T12:23:49Z → 2046-10-09T11:43:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–17:50 on the 8th, 06:22–17:49 on the 9th.

    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 690 minutes on the 8th and 687 of 687 on the 9th.

    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 6887 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2046: Tuesday 9 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2046 falls on Tuesday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 18:02 on Mon 8 Oct to 19:44 on Tue 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 687 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2046/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 9 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 9 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 9 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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:24 → 04:4406:53694 min06:540 min8 Oct
Chicago07:24 → 06:4406:56656 min06:570 min8 Oct
Jersey City08:24 → 07:4407:01603 min07:0242 min8 Oct
Port of Spain08:24 → 07:4405:55568 min05:55109 min8 Oct
London13:24 → 12:4407:13298 min07:15329 min9 Oct
Durban14:24 → 13:4405:26217 min05:25498 min9 Oct
Dubai16:24 → 15:4406:1494 min06:14569 min9 Oct
Delhi17:54 → 17:1406:185 min06:19655 min9 Oct
Kolkata17:54 → 17:1405:310 min05:31703 min9 Oct
Singapore20:24 → 19:4406:500 min06:49725 min9 Oct
Sydney23:24 → 22:4406:240 min06:22761 min9 Oct
Suva00:24 → 23:4405:430 min05:42743 min9 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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