Day of Monday 14 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
05:56 sunrisesunset 17:25
05:3207:3209:3211:3213:3215:3217:3219:32
0 of 689 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2002
Determinatein Cairo, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 185 minutes.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Monday 14 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 689 minutes covered
Day of Tuesday 15 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
363 of 687 minutes covered, the first 363
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 20:31 on Mon 14 Oct to 21:54 on Tue 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:15 on Mon 14 Oct to 12:00 on Tue 15 Oct. They are together from 20:31 on Mon 14 Oct to 12:00 on Tue 15 Oct.
2002-10-14T18:30:41Z → 2002-10-15T09:59:42Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:56–17:25 on the 14th, 05:57–17:24 on the 15th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 0 of 689 minutes on the 14th and 363 of 687 on the 15th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 11114 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Cairo, 2002: Tuesday 15 October.
confidence: determinate
In Cairo, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2002 falls on Tuesday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 20:31 on Mon 14 Oct to 21:54 on Tue 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 363 minutes.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 15 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Tue 15 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 15 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Cairo. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 14th | Covered | Sunrise 15th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 11:31 → 03:00 | 06:58 | 409 min | 06:58 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Chicago | 13:31 → 05:00 | 07:02 | 280 min | 07:03 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Jersey City | 14:31 → 06:00 | 07:07 | 227 min | 07:08 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 14:31 → 06:00 | 05:55 | 198 min | 05:55 | 5 min | 14 Oct |
| London | 19:31 → 11:00 | 07:23 | 0 min | 07:24 | 215 min | 15 Oct |
| Durban | 20:31 → 12:00 | 05:20 | 0 min | 05:19 | 401 min | 15 Oct |
| Dubai | 22:31 → 14:00 | 06:17 | 0 min | 06:17 | 463 min | 15 Oct |
| Delhi | 00:01 → 15:30 | 06:21 | 0 min | 06:22 | 548 min | 15 Oct |
| Kolkata | 00:01 → 15:30 | 05:33 | 0 min | 05:33 | 597 min | 15 Oct |
| Singapore | 02:31 → 18:00 | 06:48 | 0 min | 06:48 | 672 min | 15 Oct |
| Sydney | 04:31 → 20:00 | 05:16 | 0 min | 05:15 | 773 min | 15 Oct |
| Suva | 06:31 → 22:00 | 05:39 | 0 min | 05:38 | 696 min | 15 Oct |