Day of Sunday 8 October
Qualifies with 26 of 688 minutes. Not taken.
06:22 sunrisesunset 17:49
Śravaṇa begins 17:23:32
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58
26 of 688 minutes covered, the last 26
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2084
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Sunday 8 October
Qualifies with 26 of 688 minutes. Not taken.
26 of 688 minutes covered, the last 26
Day of Monday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
425 of 685 minutes covered, the first 425
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 15:36 on Sun 8 Oct to 13:27 on Mon 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 17:24 on Sun 8 Oct to 15:59 on Mon 9 Oct. They are together from 17:24 on Sun 8 Oct to 13:27 on Mon 9 Oct.
2084-10-08T09:23:32Z → 2084-10-09T05:27:25Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:22–17:49 on the 8th, 06:23–17:48 on the 9th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 26 of 688 minutes on the 8th and 425 of 685 on the 9th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 1544 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2084: Monday 9 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2084 falls on Monday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 15:36 on Sun 8 Oct to 13:27 on Mon 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 425 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 26 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Mon 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Mon 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Mon 9 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Sunrise 9th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 02:24 → 22:27 | 06:54 | 692 min | 06:55 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 04:24 → 00:27 | 06:57 | 682 min | 06:58 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 05:24 → 01:27 | 07:02 | 684 min | 07:03 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 05:24 → 01:27 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 10:24 → 06:27 | 07:15 | 477 min | 07:16 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 11:24 → 07:27 | 05:26 | 398 min | 05:24 | 123 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 13:24 → 09:27 | 06:15 | 274 min | 06:15 | 192 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 14:54 → 10:57 | 06:19 | 185 min | 06:19 | 278 min | 9 Oct |
| Kolkata | 14:54 → 10:57 | 05:31 | 143 min | 05:31 | 326 min | 9 Oct |
| Singapore | 17:24 → 13:27 | 06:50 | 91 min | 06:49 | 398 min | 9 Oct |
| Sydney | 20:24 → 16:27 | 06:23 | 0 min | 06:21 | 606 min | 9 Oct |
| Suva | 21:24 → 17:27 | 05:43 | 0 min | 05:42 | 705 min | 9 Oct |