Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2052

Thursday 3 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 317 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 Thursday 3 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:57
Śravaṇa begins 12:28:12
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

329 of 701 minutes covered, the last 329

Day of Friday 4 October

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

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:56
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

0 of 698 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 00:07 on Thu 3 Oct to 01:00 on Fri 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 12:28 on Thu 3 Oct to 13:37 on Fri 4 Oct. They are together from 12:28 on Thu 3 Oct to 01:00 on Fri 4 Oct.

    2052-10-03T04:28:13Z → 2052-10-03T17:00:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:17–17:57 on the 3rd, 06:17–17:56 on the 4th.

    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 329 of 701 minutes on the 3rd and 0 of 698 on the 4th.

    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 19028 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2052: Thursday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2052 falls on Thursday 3 October. Daśamī runs from 00:07 on Thu 3 Oct to 01:00 on Fri 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 329 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2052/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 3 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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:28 → 10:0006:50190 min06:510 min3 Oct
Chicago23:28 → 12:0006:51309 min06:520 min3 Oct
Jersey City00:28 → 13:0006:56364 min06:570 min3 Oct
Port of Spain00:28 → 13:0005:55425 min05:550 min3 Oct
London05:28 → 18:0007:06654 min07:080 min3 Oct
Durban06:28 → 19:0005:32690 min05:300 min3 Oct
Dubai08:28 → 21:0006:12575 min06:130 min3 Oct
Delhi09:58 → 22:3006:16486 min06:160 min3 Oct
Kolkata09:58 → 22:3005:29443 min05:290 min3 Oct
Singapore12:28 → 01:0006:51388 min06:510 min3 Oct
Sydney14:28 → 03:0005:30211 min05:280 min3 Oct
Suva16:28 → 05:0005:4796 min05:460 min3 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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