Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2053

Tuesday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 58 minutes.

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The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Tuesday 21 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:34 sunrisesunset 17:31
Daśamī begins 16:32:53
06:1008:1010:1012:1014:1016:1018:10

58 of 657 minutes covered, the last 58

Day of Wednesday 22 October

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

06:35 sunrisesunset 17:30
06:1108:1110:1112:1114:1116:1118:11

0 of 655 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 16:33 on Tue 21 Oct to 18:32 on Wed 22 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:46 on Mon 20 Oct to 19:36 on Tue 21 Oct. They are together from 16:33 on Tue 21 Oct to 19:36 on Tue 21 Oct.

    2053-10-21T08:32:53Z → 2053-10-21T11:36:07Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:34–17:31 on the 21st, 06:35–17:30 on the 22nd.

    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 58 of 657 minutes on the 21st and 0 of 655 on the 22nd.

    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 3494 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2053: Tuesday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2053 falls on Tuesday 21 October. Daśamī runs from 16:33 on Tue 21 Oct to 18:32 on Wed 22 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 58 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2053/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 21 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 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:33 → 04:3607:040 min07:050 min21 Oct
Chicago03:33 → 06:3607:110 min07:120 min21 Oct
Jersey City04:33 → 07:3607:1521 min07:160 min21 Oct
Port of Spain04:33 → 07:3605:56100 min05:560 min21 Oct
London09:33 → 12:3607:36183 min07:380 min21 Oct
Durban10:33 → 13:3605:12183 min05:110 min21 Oct
Dubai12:33 → 15:3606:20183 min06:210 min21 Oct
Delhi14:03 → 17:0606:26183 min06:270 min21 Oct
Kolkata14:03 → 17:0605:36183 min05:360 min21 Oct
Singapore16:33 → 19:3606:47139 min06:470 min21 Oct
Sydney19:33 → 22:3606:070 min06:060 min22 Oct
Suva20:33 → 23:3605:340 min05:330 min22 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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