Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2085

Saturday 29 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 41 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Friday 28 September

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

06:12 sunrisesunset 18:05
05:4807:4809:4811:4813:4815:4817:4819:48

0 of 713 minutes covered

Day of Saturday 29 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:13 sunrisesunset 18:04
Śravaṇa begins 06:54:05Daśamī ends 09:32:24
05:4907:4909:4911:4913:4915:4917:4919:49

158 of 711 minutes covered, the first 158

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 11:53 on Fri 28 Sep to 09:32 on Sat 29 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 06:54 on Sat 29 Sep to 04:52 on Sun 30 Sep. They are together from 06:54 on Sat 29 Sep to 09:32 on Sat 29 Sep.

    2085-09-28T22:54:05Z → 2085-09-29T01:32:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:12–18:05 on the 28th, 06:13–18:04 on the 29th.

    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 713 minutes on the 28th and 158 of 711 on the 29th.

    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 2464 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2085: Saturday 29 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2085 falls on Saturday 29 September. Daśamī runs from 11:53 on Fri 28 Sep to 09:32 on Sat 29 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 158 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2085/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 Sep
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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:54 → 18:3206:46158 min06:470 min28 Sep
Chicago17:54 → 20:3206:4642 min06:470 min28 Sep
Jersey City18:54 → 21:3206:510 min06:520 min28 Sep
Port of Spain18:54 → 21:3205:550 min05:550 min28 Sep
London23:54 → 02:3206:580 min07:000 min28 Sep
Durban00:54 → 03:3205:380 min05:370 min28 Sep
Dubai02:54 → 05:3206:100 min06:110 min28 Sep
Delhi04:24 → 07:0206:130 min06:1449 min29 Sep
Kolkata04:24 → 07:0205:280 min05:2894 min29 Sep
Singapore06:54 → 09:3206:530 min06:52158 min29 Sep
Sydney08:54 → 11:3205:370 min05:35158 min29 Sep
Suva10:54 → 13:3205:510 min05:50158 min29 Sep
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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