Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2056

Tuesday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 274 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 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:36
Daśamī begins 13:02:27
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

274 of 666 minutes covered, the last 274

Day of Wednesday 18 October

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

06:31 sunrisesunset 17:35
06:0708:0710:0712:0714:0716:0718:07

0 of 664 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 13:02 on Tue 17 Oct to 13:07 on Wed 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 22:37 on Mon 16 Oct to 23:01 on Tue 17 Oct. They are together from 13:02 on Tue 17 Oct to 23:01 on Tue 17 Oct.

    2056-10-17T05:02:27Z → 2056-10-17T15:01:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:30–17:36 on the 17th, 06:31–17:35 on the 18th.

    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 274 of 666 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 664 on the 18th.

    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 16428 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2056: Tuesday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2056 falls on Tuesday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 13:02 on Tue 17 Oct to 13:07 on Wed 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 274 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2056/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 17 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:02 → 08:0107:0160 min07:020 min17 Oct
Chicago00:02 → 10:0107:07175 min07:080 min17 Oct
Jersey City01:02 → 11:0107:11230 min07:120 min17 Oct
Port of Spain01:02 → 11:0105:55306 min05:560 min17 Oct
London06:02 → 16:0107:29512 min07:310 min17 Oct
Durban07:02 → 17:0105:16599 min05:140 min17 Oct
Dubai09:02 → 19:0106:19527 min06:190 min17 Oct
Delhi10:32 → 20:3106:24436 min06:240 min17 Oct
Kolkata10:32 → 20:3105:34397 min05:350 min17 Oct
Singapore13:02 → 23:0106:48350 min06:480 min17 Oct
Sydney16:02 → 02:0106:11188 min06:100 min17 Oct
Suva17:02 → 03:0105:3665 min05:350 min17 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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