Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2066

Tuesday 28 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 67 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 28 September

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:45  12:33 madhyāhna ends
10:5711:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:21

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 29 September

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:44  12:32 madhyāhna ends
10:5611:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:20

0 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 07:12 on Tue 28 Sep to 05:06 on Wed 29 Sep.

    2066-09-27T23:12:29Z → 2066-09-28T21:05:45Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:45–12:33 on the 28th, 11:44–12:32 on the 29th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 48 on the 29th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 4006 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2066: Tuesday 28 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2066 falls on Tuesday 28 September. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 07:12 on Tue 28 Sep to 05:06 on Wed 29 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2066/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 28 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 28 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 28 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:12 → 14:0612:200 min12:1948 min28 Sep
Chicago18:12 → 16:0612:170 min12:1748 min28 Sep
Jersey City19:12 → 17:0612:230 min12:2348 min28 Sep
Port of Spain19:12 → 17:0611:330 min11:3348 min28 Sep
London00:12 → 22:0612:270 min12:2748 min28 Sep
Durban01:12 → 23:0611:230 min11:2348 min28 Sep
Dubai03:12 → 01:0611:460 min11:4548 min28 Sep
Delhi04:42 → 02:3611:480 min11:4848 min28 Sep
Kolkata04:42 → 02:3611:040 min11:0348 min28 Sep
Singapore07:12 → 05:0612:320 min12:3148 min28 Sep
Sydney09:12 → 07:0611:230 min11:2248 min29 Sep
Suva11:12 → 09:0611:340 min11:3348 min29 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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