Day of Saturday 4 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:50 sunrisesunset 17:37
Śravaṇa begins 16:44:06
05:2607:2609:2611:2613:2615:2617:2619:26
53 of 707 minutes covered, the last 53
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2003
Boundaryin Cairo, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Saturday 4 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
53 of 707 minutes covered, the last 53
Day of Sunday 5 October
Qualifies with 37 of 706 minutes. Not taken.
37 of 706 minutes covered, the first 37
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 07:13 on Sat 4 Oct to 06:28 on Sun 5 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:44 on Sat 4 Oct to 16:51 on Sun 5 Oct. They are together from 16:44 on Sat 4 Oct to 06:28 on Sun 5 Oct.
2003-10-04T14:44:06Z → 2003-10-05T04:27:56Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:50–17:37 on the 4th, 05:51–17:36 on the 5th.
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 53 of 707 minutes on the 4th and 37 of 706 on the 5th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2241 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Cairo, 2003: Saturday 4 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Cairo, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2003 falls on Saturday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 07:13 on Sat 4 Oct to 06:28 on Sun 5 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 53 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 37 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 4 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 4 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 4 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 4th | Covered | Sunrise 5th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 07:44 → 21:28 | 06:50 | 649 min | 06:50 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Chicago | 09:44 → 23:28 | 06:51 | 523 min | 06:52 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Jersey City | 10:44 → 00:28 | 06:56 | 470 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 10:44 → 00:28 | 05:55 | 431 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| London | 15:44 → 05:28 | 07:06 | 168 min | 07:07 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Durban | 16:44 → 06:28 | 05:32 | 74 min | 05:30 | 57 min | 4 Oct |
| Dubai | 18:44 → 08:28 | 06:12 | 0 min | 06:12 | 135 min | 5 Oct |
| Delhi | 20:14 → 09:58 | 06:16 | 0 min | 06:16 | 222 min | 5 Oct |
| Kolkata | 20:14 → 09:58 | 05:29 | 0 min | 05:29 | 269 min | 5 Oct |
| Singapore | 22:44 → 12:28 | 06:51 | 0 min | 06:51 | 337 min | 5 Oct |
| Sydney | 00:44 → 14:28 | 05:30 | 0 min | 05:28 | 540 min | 5 Oct |
| Suva | 02:44 → 16:28 | 05:47 | 0 min | 05:46 | 642 min | 5 Oct |