Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2083

Wednesday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 155 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 19 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 20 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

48 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 20:10 on Tue 19 Oct to 19:34 on Wed 20 Oct.

    2083-10-19T12:09:38Z → 2083-10-20T11:33:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 19th, 11:39–12:27 on the 20th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 19th and 48 of 48 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 9316 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2083: Wednesday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2083 falls on Wednesday 20 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 20:10 on Tue 19 Oct to 19:34 on Wed 20 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2083/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 20 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:10 → 04:3412:1448 min12:140 min19 Oct
Chicago07:10 → 06:3412:1148 min12:110 min19 Oct
Jersey City08:10 → 07:3412:1748 min12:170 min19 Oct
Port of Spain08:10 → 07:3411:2748 min11:270 min19 Oct
London13:10 → 12:3412:210 min12:2113 min19 Oct
Durban14:10 → 13:3411:170 min11:1748 min19 Oct
Dubai16:10 → 15:3411:400 min11:4048 min19 Oct
Delhi17:40 → 17:0411:420 min11:4248 min19 Oct
Kolkata17:40 → 17:0410:580 min10:5748 min20 Oct
Singapore20:10 → 19:3412:260 min12:2648 min20 Oct
Sydney23:10 → 22:3412:170 min12:1648 min20 Oct
Suva00:10 → 23:3411:280 min11:2748 min20 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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