Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2051

Sunday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 121 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 Saturday 14 October

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

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

0 of 675 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 15 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:40
Śravaṇa ends 11:15:44
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

288 of 673 minutes covered, the first 288

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 19:43 on Sat 14 Oct to 18:24 on Sun 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 11:38 on Sat 14 Oct to 11:16 on Sun 15 Oct. They are together from 19:43 on Sat 14 Oct to 11:16 on Sun 15 Oct.

    2051-10-14T11:42:31Z → 2051-10-15T03:15:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:26–17:42 on the 14th, 06:27–17:40 on the 15th.

    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 675 minutes on the 14th and 288 of 673 on the 15th.

    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 7251 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2051: Sunday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2051 falls on Sunday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 19:43 on Sat 14 Oct to 18:24 on Sun 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 288 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2051/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 15 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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:43 → 20:1606:58682 min06:590 min14 Oct
Chicago06:43 → 22:1607:02668 min07:030 min14 Oct
Jersey City07:43 → 23:1607:07635 min07:080 min14 Oct
Port of Spain07:43 → 23:1605:55606 min05:550 min14 Oct
London12:43 → 04:1607:23327 min07:250 min14 Oct
Durban13:43 → 05:1605:20262 min05:190 min14 Oct
Dubai15:43 → 07:1606:17130 min06:1759 min14 Oct
Delhi17:13 → 08:4606:2140 min06:22144 min15 Oct
Kolkata17:13 → 08:4605:330 min05:33193 min15 Oct
Singapore19:43 → 11:1606:480 min06:48268 min15 Oct
Sydney22:43 → 14:1606:160 min06:15481 min15 Oct
Suva23:43 → 15:1605:390 min05:38578 min15 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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