Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2049

Wednesday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 125 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 Wednesday 6 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:53
Śravaṇa begins 08:24:09
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

569 of 694 minutes covered, the last 569

Day of Thursday 7 October

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

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:51
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

0 of 691 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 02:23 on Wed 6 Oct to 23:52 on Wed 6 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 08:24 on Wed 6 Oct to 06:34 on Thu 7 Oct. They are together from 08:24 on Wed 6 Oct to 23:52 on Wed 6 Oct.

    2049-10-06T00:24:10Z → 2049-10-06T15:51:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:19–17:53 on the 6th, 06:20–17:51 on the 7th.

    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 569 of 694 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 691 on the 7th.

    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 7504 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2049: Wednesday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2049 falls on Wednesday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 02:23 on Wed 6 Oct to 23:52 on Wed 6 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 569 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2049/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 6 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 6thCoveredSunrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:24 → 08:5206:52120 min06:530 min6 Oct
Chicago19:24 → 10:5206:54238 min06:550 min6 Oct
Jersey City20:24 → 11:5206:59293 min07:000 min6 Oct
Port of Spain20:24 → 11:5205:55357 min05:550 min6 Oct
London01:24 → 16:5207:10581 min07:120 min6 Oct
Durban02:24 → 17:5205:28743 min05:270 min6 Oct
Dubai04:24 → 19:5206:13707 min06:140 min6 Oct
Delhi05:54 → 21:2206:17704 min06:180 min6 Oct
Kolkata05:54 → 21:2205:30685 min05:300 min6 Oct
Singapore08:24 → 23:5206:50631 min06:500 min6 Oct
Sydney11:24 → 02:5206:26457 min06:240 min6 Oct
Suva12:24 → 03:5205:45341 min05:440 min6 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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