Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2055

Thursday 30 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 142 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 30 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:13 sunrisesunset 18:03
Śravaṇa begins 10:48:21Daśamī ends 15:41:18
05:4907:4909:4911:4913:4915:4917:4919:49

293 of 710 minutes covered, the first 293

Day of Friday 1 October

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

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:01
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

0 of 707 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 14:34 on Wed 29 Sep to 15:41 on Thu 30 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 10:48 on Thu 30 Sep to 12:56 on Fri 1 Oct. They are together from 10:48 on Thu 30 Sep to 15:41 on Thu 30 Sep.

    2055-09-30T02:48:21Z → 2055-09-30T07:41:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:13–18:03 on the 30th, 06:14–18:01 on the 1st.

    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 293 of 710 minutes on the 30th and 0 of 707 on the 1st.

    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 8501 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2055: Thursday 30 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2055 falls on Thursday 30 September. Daśamī runs from 14:34 on Wed 29 Sep to 15:41 on Thu 30 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 293 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2055/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 30 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 30 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 30 Sep
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 30thCoveredSunrise 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:48 → 00:4106:470 min06:480 min29 Sep
Chicago21:48 → 02:4106:470 min06:480 min29 Sep
Jersey City22:48 → 03:4106:520 min06:530 min29 Sep
Port of Spain22:48 → 03:4105:550 min05:550 min29 Sep
London03:48 → 08:4107:00102 min07:010 min30 Sep
Durban04:48 → 09:4105:36245 min05:350 min30 Sep
Dubai06:48 → 11:4106:11293 min06:110 min30 Sep
Delhi08:18 → 13:1106:14293 min06:140 min30 Sep
Kolkata08:18 → 13:1105:28293 min05:280 min30 Sep
Singapore10:48 → 15:4106:52293 min06:520 min30 Sep
Sydney12:48 → 17:4105:35293 min05:330 min30 Sep
Suva14:48 → 19:4105:50195 min05:490 min30 Sep
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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