Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1990

Saturday 29 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 120 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two days

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

Day of Saturday 29 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

07:11 sunrisesunset 19:01
Śravaṇa begins 16:03:11
06:4708:4710:4712:4714:4716:4718:4720:47

177 of 710 minutes covered, the last 177

Day of Sunday 30 September

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

06:12 sunrisesunset 17:59
05:4807:4809:4811:4813:4815:4817:4819:48

0 of 707 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 19:56 on Fri 28 Sep to 21:01 on Sat 29 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 16:03 on Sat 29 Sep to 16:08 on Sun 30 Sep. They are together from 16:03 on Sat 29 Sep to 21:01 on Sat 29 Sep.

    1990-09-29T13:03:11Z → 1990-09-29T18:00:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 07:11–19:01 on the 29th, 06:12–17:59 on the 30th.

    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 177 of 710 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 707 on the 30th.

    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 7217 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Bucharest, 1990: Saturday 29 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1990 falls on Saturday 29 September. Daśamī runs from 19:56 on Fri 28 Sep to 21:01 on Sat 29 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 177 minutes.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1990/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 Sep
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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:03 → 11:0106:46255 min06:470 min29 Sep
Chicago08:03 → 13:0106:45298 min06:470 min29 Sep
Jersey City09:03 → 14:0106:51298 min06:520 min29 Sep
Port of Spain09:03 → 14:0105:55298 min05:550 min29 Sep
London14:03 → 19:0106:58280 min06:590 min29 Sep
Durban15:03 → 20:0105:38172 min05:360 min29 Sep
Dubai17:03 → 22:0106:1065 min06:100 min29 Sep
Delhi18:33 → 23:3106:130 min06:130 min29 Sep
Kolkata18:33 → 23:3105:270 min05:280 min29 Sep
Singapore21:03 → 02:0106:520 min06:520 min29 Sep
Sydney23:03 → 04:0105:360 min05:350 min29 Sep
Suva01:03 → 06:0105:510 min05:5011 min30 Sep
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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