Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2071

Sunday 4 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 6 min 37 s.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Saturday 3 October

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

06:16 sunrisesunset 17:58
Śravaṇa begins 18:20:08
05:5207:5209:5211:5213:5215:5217:5219:52

0 of 702 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 4 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:17 sunrisesunset 17:57
Daśamī ends 06:23:36
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

7 of 700 minutes covered, the first 7

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 03:55 on Sat 3 Oct to 06:24 on Sun 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 18:20 on Sat 3 Oct to 21:14 on Sun 4 Oct. They are together from 18:20 on Sat 3 Oct to 06:24 on Sun 4 Oct.

    2071-10-03T10:20:09Z → 2071-10-03T22:23:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:16–17:58 on the 3rd, 06:17–17:57 on the 4th.

    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 702 minutes on the 3rd and 7 of 700 on the 4th.

    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 397 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2071: Sunday 4 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2071 falls on Sunday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 03:55 on Sat 3 Oct to 06:24 on Sun 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 7 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2071/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 4 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 4 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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:20 → 15:2406:50514 min06:500 min3 Oct
Chicago05:20 → 17:2406:50633 min06:510 min3 Oct
Jersey City06:20 → 18:2406:56688 min06:570 min3 Oct
Port of Spain06:20 → 18:2405:55695 min05:550 min3 Oct
London11:20 → 23:2407:05433 min07:070 min3 Oct
Durban12:20 → 00:2405:32338 min05:310 min3 Oct
Dubai14:20 → 02:2406:12223 min06:120 min3 Oct
Delhi15:50 → 03:5406:15135 min06:160 min3 Oct
Kolkata15:50 → 03:5405:2992 min05:290 min3 Oct
Singapore18:20 → 06:2406:5136 min06:510 min3 Oct
Sydney20:20 → 09:2405:300 min06:29175 min4 Oct
Suva22:20 → 10:2405:470 min05:47277 min4 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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