Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2087

Tuesday 7 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 158 minutes.

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The two days

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

Day of Tuesday 7 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:52
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

692 of 692 minutes covered

Day of Wednesday 8 October

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

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:50
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

0 of 689 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 21:03 on Mon 6 Oct to 21:02 on Tue 7 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 03:42 on Tue 7 Oct to 04:06 on Wed 8 Oct. They are together from 03:42 on Tue 7 Oct to 21:02 on Tue 7 Oct.

    2087-10-06T19:42:23Z → 2087-10-07T13:01:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–17:52 on the 7th, 06:21–17:50 on the 8th.

    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 692 of 692 minutes on the 7th and 0 of 689 on the 8th.

    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 9462 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2087: Tuesday 7 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2087 falls on Tuesday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 21:03 on Mon 6 Oct to 21:02 on Tue 7 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 692 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2087/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 7 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 6thCoveredSunrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:42 → 06:0206:52348 min06:530 min6 Oct
Chicago14:42 → 08:0206:54221 min06:5567 min6 Oct
Jersey City15:42 → 09:0206:59167 min07:00122 min6 Oct
Port of Spain15:42 → 09:0205:55131 min05:55186 min7 Oct
London20:42 → 14:0207:100 min07:12410 min7 Oct
Durban21:42 → 15:0205:290 min05:28574 min7 Oct
Dubai23:42 → 17:0206:130 min06:14648 min7 Oct
Delhi01:12 → 18:3206:170 min06:18702 min7 Oct
Kolkata01:12 → 18:3205:300 min05:31708 min7 Oct
Singapore03:42 → 21:0206:500 min06:50725 min7 Oct
Sydney06:42 → 00:0206:260 min06:25740 min7 Oct
Suva07:42 → 01:0205:450 min05:44623 min7 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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