Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2075

Friday 18 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 171 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 Friday 18 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:31 sunrisesunset 17:36
Daśamī begins 14:45:09
06:0708:0710:0712:0714:0716:0718:07

171 of 665 minutes covered, the last 171

Day of Saturday 19 October

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

06:32 sunrisesunset 17:34
06:0808:0810:0812:0814:0816:0818:08

0 of 663 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 14:45 on Fri 18 Oct to 12:53 on Sat 19 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 00:53 on Fri 18 Oct to 23:41 on Fri 18 Oct. They are together from 14:45 on Fri 18 Oct to 23:41 on Fri 18 Oct.

    2075-10-18T06:45:10Z → 2075-10-18T15:40:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:31–17:36 on the 18th, 06:32–17:34 on the 19th.

    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 171 of 665 minutes on the 18th and 0 of 663 on the 19th.

    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 10239 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2075: Friday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2075 falls on Friday 18 October. Daśamī runs from 14:45 on Fri 18 Oct to 12:53 on Sat 19 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 171 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2075/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 18 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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:45 → 08:4107:01100 min07:020 min18 Oct
Chicago01:45 → 10:4107:07214 min07:080 min18 Oct
Jersey City02:45 → 11:4107:11269 min07:130 min18 Oct
Port of Spain02:45 → 11:4105:56345 min05:560 min18 Oct
London07:45 → 16:4107:30536 min07:320 min18 Oct
Durban08:45 → 17:4105:15536 min05:140 min18 Oct
Dubai10:45 → 19:4106:19424 min06:190 min18 Oct
Delhi12:15 → 21:1106:24333 min06:250 min18 Oct
Kolkata12:15 → 21:1105:35294 min05:350 min18 Oct
Singapore14:45 → 23:4106:48247 min06:480 min18 Oct
Sydney17:45 → 02:4106:1186 min06:100 min18 Oct
Suva18:45 → 03:4105:360 min05:350 min19 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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