Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2096

Friday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 189 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 26 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 27 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 08:29 on Fri 26 Oct to 07:58 on Sat 27 Oct.

    2096-10-26T00:29:04Z → 2096-10-26T23:57:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 26th, 11:38–12:26 on the 27th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 26th and 0 of 48 on the 27th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 11342 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2096: Friday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2096 falls on Friday 26 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 08:29 on Fri 26 Oct to 07:58 on Sat 27 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2096/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 26 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 26thCoveredMadhyāhna 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:29 → 16:5812:1348 min12:130 min26 Oct
Chicago19:29 → 18:5812:1048 min12:100 min26 Oct
Jersey City20:29 → 19:5812:1648 min12:160 min26 Oct
Port of Spain20:29 → 19:5811:2648 min11:260 min26 Oct
London01:29 → 00:5812:2048 min12:200 min26 Oct
Durban02:29 → 01:5811:1648 min11:160 min26 Oct
Dubai04:29 → 03:5811:3948 min11:390 min26 Oct
Delhi05:59 → 05:2811:4148 min11:410 min26 Oct
Kolkata05:59 → 05:2810:5748 min10:570 min26 Oct
Singapore08:29 → 07:5812:2548 min12:250 min26 Oct
Sydney11:29 → 10:5812:1648 min12:160 min26 Oct
Suva12:29 → 11:5811:270 min11:2731 min27 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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