Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1973

Saturday 6 October

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 17 minutes.

Decide it for

44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two days

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

Day of Saturday 6 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:47
Śravaṇa begins 09:47:23
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

480 of 688 minutes covered, the last 480

Day of Sunday 7 October

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

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:46
Daśamī ends 06:03:21
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

0 of 685 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 04:11 on Sat 6 Oct to 06:03 on Sun 7 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 09:47 on Sat 6 Oct to 12:04 on Sun 7 Oct. They are together from 09:47 on Sat 6 Oct to 06:03 on Sun 7 Oct.

    1973-10-06T07:47:24Z → 1973-10-07T04:03:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:19–17:47 on the 6th, 06:21–17:46 on the 7th.

    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 480 of 688 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 685 on the 7th.

    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 1029 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Bucharest, 1973: Saturday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1973 falls on Saturday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 04:11 on Sat 6 Oct to 06:03 on Sun 7 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 480 minutes.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1973/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 6 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

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 Angeles00:47 → 21:0306:51699 min06:520 min6 Oct
Chicago02:47 → 23:0306:53690 min06:540 min6 Oct
Jersey City03:47 → 00:0306:58692 min06:590 min6 Oct
Port of Spain03:47 → 00:0305:55718 min05:550 min6 Oct
London08:47 → 05:0307:09580 min07:110 min6 Oct
Durban09:47 → 06:0305:29492 min05:2836 min6 Oct
Dubai11:47 → 08:0306:13373 min06:13110 min6 Oct
Delhi13:17 → 09:3306:17284 min06:17196 min6 Oct
Kolkata13:17 → 09:3305:30242 min05:30243 min7 Oct
Singapore15:17 → 11:3306:20188 min06:20313 min7 Oct
Sydney17:47 → 14:0305:2714 min05:25518 min7 Oct
Suva19:47 → 16:0305:450 min05:44619 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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