Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2091

Sunday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 36 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 Saturday 20 October

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

06:33 sunrisesunset 17:33
06:0908:0910:0912:0914:0916:0918:09

0 of 660 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 21 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:34 sunrisesunset 17:32
Śravaṇa ends 11:05:29
06:1008:1010:1012:1014:1016:1018:10

272 of 658 minutes covered, the first 272

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 05:58 on Sun 21 Oct to 06:53 on Mon 22 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:06 on Sat 20 Oct to 11:05 on Sun 21 Oct. They are together from 05:58 on Sun 21 Oct to 11:05 on Sun 21 Oct.

    2091-10-20T21:58:05Z → 2091-10-21T03:05:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:33–17:33 on the 20th, 06:34–17:32 on the 21st.

    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 660 minutes on the 20th and 272 of 658 on the 21st.

    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 2153 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2091: Sunday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2091 falls on Sunday 21 October. Daśamī runs from 05:58 on Sun 21 Oct to 06:53 on Mon 22 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 272 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2091/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 21 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 20thCoveredSunrise 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:58 → 20:0507:03194 min07:040 min20 Oct
Chicago16:58 → 22:0507:1063 min07:110 min20 Oct
Jersey City17:58 → 23:0507:1410 min07:150 min20 Oct
Port of Spain17:58 → 23:0505:560 min05:560 min21 Oct
London22:58 → 04:0507:340 min07:360 min21 Oct
Durban23:58 → 05:0505:130 min05:120 min21 Oct
Dubai01:58 → 07:0506:200 min06:2145 min21 Oct
Delhi03:28 → 08:3506:250 min06:26129 min21 Oct
Kolkata03:28 → 08:3505:360 min05:36179 min21 Oct
Singapore05:58 → 11:0506:470 min06:47258 min21 Oct
Sydney08:58 → 14:0506:090 min06:07307 min21 Oct
Suva09:58 → 15:0505:350 min05:34307 min21 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

About Ahargaṇa