Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2099

Friday 23 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 248 minutes.

Decide it for

BaodingDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

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

Midday of Thursday 22 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 23 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

48 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 21:38 on Thu 22 Oct to 23:48 on Fri 23 Oct.

    2099-10-22T13:37:57Z → 2099-10-23T15:47:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 22nd, 11:39–12:27 on the 23rd.

    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 0 of 48 minutes on the 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 14862 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2099: Friday 23 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2099 falls on Friday 23 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 21:38 on Thu 22 Oct to 23:48 on Fri 23 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2099/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 23 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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:38 → 08:4812:1348 min12:130 min22 Oct
Chicago08:38 → 10:4812:1148 min12:110 min22 Oct
Jersey City09:38 → 11:4812:1748 min12:170 min22 Oct
Port of Spain09:38 → 11:4811:2748 min11:2721 min22 Oct
London14:38 → 16:4812:210 min12:2148 min22 Oct
Durban15:38 → 17:4811:170 min11:1748 min22 Oct
Dubai17:38 → 19:4811:390 min11:3948 min22 Oct
Delhi19:08 → 21:1811:420 min11:4248 min23 Oct
Kolkata19:08 → 21:1810:570 min10:5748 min23 Oct
Singapore21:38 → 23:4812:250 min12:2548 min23 Oct
Sydney00:38 → 02:4812:160 min12:1648 min23 Oct
Suva01:38 → 03:4811:270 min11:2748 min23 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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