Day of Saturday 10 October
Qualifies with 318 of 684 minutes. Not taken.
06:23 sunrisesunset 17:47
Daśamī begins 12:29:39
05:5907:5909:5911:5913:5915:5917:59
318 of 684 minutes covered, the last 318
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2054
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Saturday 10 October
Qualifies with 318 of 684 minutes. Not taken.
318 of 684 minutes covered, the last 318
Day of Sunday 11 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
491 of 682 minutes covered, the first 491
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 12:30 on Sat 10 Oct to 15:04 on Sun 11 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 11:31 on Sat 10 Oct to 14:35 on Sun 11 Oct. They are together from 12:30 on Sat 10 Oct to 14:35 on Sun 11 Oct.
2054-10-10T04:29:39Z → 2054-10-11T06:34:33Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:23–17:47 on the 10th, 06:24–17:46 on the 11th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 318 of 684 minutes on the 10th and 491 of 682 on the 11th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 11468 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2054: Sunday 11 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2054 falls on Sunday 11 October. Daśamī runs from 12:30 on Sat 10 Oct to 15:04 on Sun 11 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 491 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 318 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sun 11 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sun 11 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sun 11 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 10th | Covered | Sunrise 11th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 21:30 → 23:35 | 06:55 | 690 min | 06:56 | 0 min | 10 Oct |
| Chicago | 23:30 → 01:35 | 06:58 | 678 min | 06:59 | 0 min | 10 Oct |
| Jersey City | 00:30 → 02:35 | 07:03 | 680 min | 07:04 | 0 min | 10 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 00:30 → 02:35 | 05:55 | 716 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 10 Oct |
| London | 05:30 → 07:35 | 07:17 | 661 min | 07:18 | 16 min | 10 Oct |
| Durban | 06:30 → 08:35 | 05:24 | 693 min | 05:23 | 192 min | 10 Oct |
| Dubai | 08:30 → 10:35 | 06:15 | 567 min | 06:15 | 259 min | 10 Oct |
| Delhi | 10:00 → 12:05 | 06:19 | 477 min | 06:20 | 345 min | 10 Oct |
| Kolkata | 10:00 → 12:05 | 05:31 | 436 min | 05:32 | 393 min | 10 Oct |
| Singapore | 12:30 → 14:35 | 06:49 | 385 min | 06:49 | 466 min | 11 Oct |
| Sydney | 15:30 → 17:35 | 06:21 | 215 min | 06:20 | 675 min | 11 Oct |
| Suva | 16:30 → 18:35 | 05:42 | 96 min | 05:41 | 745 min | 11 Oct |