Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2048

Friday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 18 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 Thursday 15 October

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

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

0 of 671 minutes covered

Day of Friday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
Śravaṇa ends 17:20:12
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

651 of 669 minutes covered, the first 651

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 05:44 on Fri 16 Oct to 04:19 on Sat 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 18:11 on Thu 15 Oct to 17:20 on Fri 16 Oct. They are together from 05:44 on Fri 16 Oct to 17:20 on Fri 16 Oct.

    2048-10-15T21:44:04Z → 2048-10-16T09:20:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:28–17:39 on the 15th, 06:29–17:38 on the 16th.

    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 671 minutes on the 15th and 651 of 669 on the 16th.

    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 1050 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2048: Friday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2048 falls on Friday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 05:44 on Fri 16 Oct to 04:19 on Sat 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 651 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2048/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:44 → 02:2006:59214 min07:000 min15 Oct
Chicago16:44 → 04:2007:0484 min07:050 min15 Oct
Jersey City17:44 → 05:2007:0931 min07:100 min15 Oct
Port of Spain17:44 → 05:2005:554 min05:550 min15 Oct
London22:44 → 10:2007:260 min07:28173 min16 Oct
Durban23:44 → 11:2005:180 min05:17364 min16 Oct
Dubai01:44 → 13:2006:170 min06:18422 min16 Oct
Delhi03:14 → 14:5006:220 min06:23507 min16 Oct
Kolkata03:14 → 14:5005:330 min05:34556 min16 Oct
Singapore05:44 → 17:2006:480 min06:48632 min16 Oct
Sydney08:44 → 20:2006:140 min06:13625 min16 Oct
Suva09:44 → 21:2005:370 min05:37503 min16 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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