Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2074

Sunday 30 September

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 3 min 36 s away. Say “contested”.

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 29 September

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

06:13 sunrisesunset 18:04
05:4907:4909:4911:4913:4915:4917:4919:49

0 of 711 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 30 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:02
Śravaṇa begins 06:17:08Daśamī ends 10:37:54
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

261 of 709 minutes covered, the first 261

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 11:42 on Sat 29 Sep to 10:38 on Sun 30 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 06:17 on Sun 30 Sep to 06:13 on Mon 1 Oct. They are together from 06:17 on Sun 30 Sep to 10:38 on Sun 30 Sep.

    2074-09-29T22:17:09Z → 2074-09-30T02:37:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:13–18:04 on the 29th, 06:14–18:02 on the 30th.

    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 711 minutes on the 29th and 261 of 709 on the 30th.

    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 216 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2074: Sunday 30 September.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2074 falls on Sunday 30 September. Daśamī runs from 11:42 on Sat 29 Sep to 10:38 on Sun 30 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 261 minutes. It is 3 min 36 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2074/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 30 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 30 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 30 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.

PlaceDaśamī with ŚravaṇaSunrise 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:17 → 19:3806:47202 min06:480 min29 Sep
Chicago17:17 → 21:3806:4678 min06:470 min29 Sep
Jersey City18:17 → 22:3806:5224 min06:530 min29 Sep
Port of Spain18:17 → 22:3805:550 min05:550 min29 Sep
London23:17 → 03:3806:590 min07:010 min29 Sep
Durban00:17 → 04:3805:370 min05:360 min29 Sep
Dubai02:17 → 06:3806:110 min06:1127 min30 Sep
Delhi03:47 → 08:0806:140 min06:14114 min30 Sep
Kolkata03:47 → 08:0805:280 min05:28160 min30 Sep
Singapore06:17 → 10:3806:520 min06:52226 min30 Sep
Sydney08:17 → 12:3805:360 min05:34261 min30 Sep
Suva10:17 → 14:3805:510 min05:50261 min30 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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