Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2068

Saturday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 219 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 Saturday 6 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:52
Śravaṇa begins 10:32:04
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

440 of 693 minutes covered, the last 440

Day of Sunday 7 October

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

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:51
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

0 of 690 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 04:44 on Sat 6 Oct to 02:41 on Sun 7 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:32 on Sat 6 Oct to 09:03 on Sun 7 Oct. They are together from 10:32 on Sat 6 Oct to 02:41 on Sun 7 Oct.

    2068-10-06T02:32:05Z → 2068-10-06T18:41:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–17:52 on the 6th, 06:21–17:51 on the 7th.

    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 440 of 693 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 690 on the 7th.

    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 13162 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2068: Saturday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2068 falls on Saturday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 04:44 on Sat 6 Oct to 02:41 on Sun 7 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 440 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2068/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 6 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 6thCoveredSunrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:32 → 11:4106:52289 min06:530 min6 Oct
Chicago21:32 → 13:4106:54407 min06:550 min6 Oct
Jersey City22:32 → 14:4106:59462 min07:000 min6 Oct
Port of Spain22:32 → 14:4105:55526 min05:550 min6 Oct
London03:32 → 19:4107:11674 min07:130 min6 Oct
Durban04:32 → 20:4105:28753 min05:270 min6 Oct
Dubai06:32 → 22:4106:14688 min06:140 min6 Oct
Delhi08:02 → 00:1106:17598 min06:180 min6 Oct
Kolkata08:02 → 00:1105:30557 min05:310 min6 Oct
Singapore10:32 → 02:4106:50503 min06:500 min6 Oct
Sydney12:32 → 05:4105:25330 min06:240 min6 Oct
Suva14:32 → 06:4105:44213 min05:4458 min6 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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