Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2059

Thursday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 17 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 Wednesday 15 October

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

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:40
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

0 of 673 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
Śravaṇa ends 17:55:59
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

670 of 670 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 05:17 on Thu 16 Oct to 02:57 on Fri 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 19:18 on Wed 15 Oct to 17:56 on Thu 16 Oct. They are together from 05:17 on Thu 16 Oct to 17:56 on Thu 16 Oct.

    2059-10-15T21:17:25Z → 2059-10-16T09:56:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:27–17:40 on the 15th, 06:28–17:39 on the 16th.

    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 0 of 673 minutes on the 15th and 670 of 670 on the 16th.

    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 1037 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2059: Thursday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2059 falls on Thursday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 05:17 on Thu 16 Oct to 02:57 on Fri 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 670 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2059/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:17 → 02:5606:59241 min06:590 min15 Oct
Chicago16:17 → 04:5607:03111 min07:050 min15 Oct
Jersey City17:17 → 05:5607:0858 min07:090 min15 Oct
Port of Spain17:17 → 05:5605:5531 min05:551 min15 Oct
London22:17 → 10:5607:250 min07:26210 min16 Oct
Durban23:17 → 11:5605:190 min05:17399 min16 Oct
Dubai01:17 → 13:5606:170 min06:18458 min16 Oct
Delhi02:47 → 15:2606:220 min06:23543 min16 Oct
Kolkata02:47 → 15:2605:330 min05:34592 min16 Oct
Singapore05:17 → 17:5606:480 min06:48668 min16 Oct
Sydney08:17 → 20:5606:150 min06:13651 min16 Oct
Suva09:17 → 21:5605:380 min05:37530 min16 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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