Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2073

Tuesday 10 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 264 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 Monday 9 October

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

06:22 sunrisesunset 17:48
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:58

0 of 686 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 10 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:23 sunrisesunset 17:47
05:5907:5909:5911:5913:5915:5917:59

683 of 683 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 22:12 on Mon 9 Oct to 23:13 on Tue 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 22:09 on Mon 9 Oct to 23:45 on Tue 10 Oct. They are together from 22:12 on Mon 9 Oct to 23:13 on Tue 10 Oct.

    2073-10-09T14:11:51Z → 2073-10-10T15:12:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:22–17:48 on the 9th, 06:23–17:47 on the 10th.

    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 686 minutes on the 9th and 683 of 683 on the 10th.

    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 15819 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2073: Tuesday 10 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2073 falls on Tuesday 10 October. Daśamī runs from 22:12 on Mon 9 Oct to 23:13 on Tue 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 683 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2073/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 10 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 10 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 10 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 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:12 → 08:1306:54674 min06:5578 min9 Oct
Chicago09:12 → 10:1306:57546 min06:59194 min9 Oct
Jersey City10:12 → 11:1307:02492 min07:03250 min9 Oct
Port of Spain10:12 → 11:1305:55459 min05:55318 min9 Oct
London15:12 → 16:1307:16187 min07:17535 min10 Oct
Durban16:12 → 17:1305:25110 min05:24709 min10 Oct
Dubai18:12 → 19:1306:150 min06:15701 min10 Oct
Delhi19:42 → 20:4306:190 min06:20697 min10 Oct
Kolkata19:42 → 20:4305:310 min05:32704 min10 Oct
Singapore22:12 → 23:1306:490 min06:49725 min10 Oct
Sydney01:12 → 02:1306:220 min06:20764 min10 Oct
Suva02:12 → 03:1305:420 min05:41744 min10 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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