Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2079

Thursday 5 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 178 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 Thursday 5 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:55
Śravaṇa begins 12:13:56
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

341 of 697 minutes covered, the last 341

Day of Friday 6 October

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

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:53
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

0 of 694 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 01:49 on Thu 5 Oct to 03:21 on Fri 6 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 12:14 on Thu 5 Oct to 14:06 on Fri 6 Oct. They are together from 12:14 on Thu 5 Oct to 03:21 on Fri 6 Oct.

    2079-10-05T04:13:57Z → 2079-10-05T19:21:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:18–17:55 on the 5th, 06:19–17:53 on the 6th.

    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 341 of 697 minutes on the 5th and 0 of 694 on the 6th.

    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 10667 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2079: Thursday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2079 falls on Thursday 5 October. Daśamī runs from 01:49 on Thu 5 Oct to 03:21 on Fri 6 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 341 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2079/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 5 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 5 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 5 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 5thCoveredSunrise 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:14 → 12:2106:51330 min06:520 min5 Oct
Chicago23:14 → 14:2106:53449 min06:540 min5 Oct
Jersey City00:14 → 15:2106:58504 min06:590 min5 Oct
Port of Spain00:14 → 15:2105:55566 min05:550 min5 Oct
London05:14 → 20:2107:08680 min07:100 min5 Oct
Durban06:14 → 21:2105:30706 min05:290 min5 Oct
Dubai08:14 → 23:2106:13588 min06:130 min5 Oct
Delhi09:44 → 00:5106:17498 min06:170 min5 Oct
Kolkata09:44 → 00:5105:30456 min05:300 min5 Oct
Singapore12:14 → 03:2106:51402 min06:500 min5 Oct
Sydney15:14 → 06:2106:28227 min06:260 min5 Oct
Suva16:14 → 07:2105:46111 min05:4596 min5 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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