Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2078

Sunday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 193 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 15 October

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

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:40
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

0 of 672 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
Śravaṇa ends 14:24:57
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

476 of 669 minutes covered, the first 476

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 00:43 on Sun 16 Oct to 00:04 on Mon 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 14:04 on Sat 15 Oct to 14:25 on Sun 16 Oct. They are together from 00:43 on Sun 16 Oct to 14:25 on Sun 16 Oct.

    2078-10-15T16:43:16Z → 2078-10-16T06:24:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:28–17:40 on the 15th, 06:29–17:38 on the 16th.

    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 672 minutes on the 15th and 476 of 669 on the 16th.

    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 11598 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2078: Sunday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2078 falls on Sunday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 00:43 on Sun 16 Oct to 00:04 on Mon 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 476 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2078/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:43 → 23:2506:59515 min07:000 min15 Oct
Chicago11:43 → 01:2507:04385 min07:050 min15 Oct
Jersey City12:43 → 02:2507:08332 min07:100 min15 Oct
Port of Spain12:43 → 02:2505:55305 min05:550 min15 Oct
London17:43 → 07:2507:2623 min07:270 min15 Oct
Durban18:43 → 08:2505:180 min05:17188 min16 Oct
Dubai20:43 → 10:2506:180 min06:18247 min16 Oct
Delhi22:13 → 11:5506:220 min06:23332 min16 Oct
Kolkata22:13 → 11:5505:330 min05:34381 min16 Oct
Singapore00:43 → 14:2506:480 min06:48457 min16 Oct
Sydney03:43 → 17:2506:140 min06:13672 min16 Oct
Suva04:43 → 18:2505:380 min05:37750 min16 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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