Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2086

Thursday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 287 minutes.

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The two days

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

Day of Thursday 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:37
Daśamī begins 12:49:47
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

287 of 667 minutes covered, the last 287

Day of Friday 18 October

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

06:31 sunrisesunset 17:35
06:0708:0710:0712:0714:0716:0718:07

0 of 664 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 12:50 on Thu 17 Oct to 10:53 on Fri 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 00:11 on Thu 17 Oct to 23:20 on Thu 17 Oct. They are together from 12:50 on Thu 17 Oct to 23:20 on Thu 17 Oct.

    2086-10-17T04:49:48Z → 2086-10-17T15:20:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:30–17:37 on the 17th, 06:31–17:35 on the 18th.

    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 287 of 667 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 664 on the 18th.

    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 17221 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2086: Thursday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2086 falls on Thursday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 12:50 on Thu 17 Oct to 10:53 on Fri 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 287 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2086/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 17 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:50 → 08:2007:0180 min07:020 min17 Oct
Chicago23:50 → 10:2007:06194 min07:080 min17 Oct
Jersey City00:50 → 11:2007:11250 min07:120 min17 Oct
Port of Spain00:50 → 11:2005:56325 min05:560 min17 Oct
London05:50 → 16:2007:29531 min07:310 min17 Oct
Durban06:50 → 17:2005:16631 min05:150 min17 Oct
Dubai08:50 → 19:2006:19540 min06:190 min17 Oct
Delhi10:20 → 20:5006:24449 min06:240 min17 Oct
Kolkata10:20 → 20:5005:34410 min05:350 min17 Oct
Singapore12:50 → 23:2006:48363 min06:480 min17 Oct
Sydney15:50 → 02:2006:12200 min06:110 min17 Oct
Suva16:50 → 03:2005:3678 min05:360 min17 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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