Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2097

Tuesday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 148 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 15 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:39
Daśamī begins 08:56:07
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

523 of 671 minutes covered, the last 523

Day of Wednesday 16 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:38
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 668 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 08:56 on Tue 15 Oct to 10:36 on Wed 16 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 22:28 on Mon 14 Oct to 00:51 on Wed 16 Oct. They are together from 08:56 on Tue 15 Oct to 00:51 on Wed 16 Oct.

    2097-10-15T00:56:08Z → 2097-10-15T16:51:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:39 on the 15th, 06:30–17:38 on the 16th.

    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 523 of 671 minutes on the 15th and 0 of 668 on the 16th.

    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 8856 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2097: Tuesday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2097 falls on Tuesday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 08:56 on Tue 15 Oct to 10:36 on Wed 16 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 523 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2097/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 15 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:56 → 09:5107:00172 min07:000 min15 Oct
Chicago19:56 → 11:5107:05286 min07:060 min15 Oct
Jersey City20:56 → 12:5107:09342 min07:100 min15 Oct
Port of Spain20:56 → 12:5105:56415 min05:560 min15 Oct
London01:56 → 17:5107:26625 min07:280 min15 Oct
Durban02:56 → 18:5105:18768 min05:170 min15 Oct
Dubai04:56 → 20:5106:18693 min06:180 min15 Oct
Delhi06:26 → 22:2106:23685 min06:230 min15 Oct
Kolkata06:26 → 22:2105:34645 min05:340 min15 Oct
Singapore08:56 → 00:5106:48597 min06:480 min15 Oct
Sydney11:56 → 03:5106:14433 min06:130 min15 Oct
Suva12:56 → 04:5105:38311 min05:370 min15 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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