Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1995

Wednesday 4 October

Boundaryin Daegu, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 29 s away. Say “contested”.

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 Tuesday 3 October

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

06:22 sunrisesunset 18:08
Śravaṇa begins 19:28:04
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58

0 of 706 minutes covered

Day of Wednesday 4 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:22 sunrisesunset 18:06
Daśamī ends 06:23:56
05:5807:5809:5811:5813:5815:5817:5819:58

1 of 704 minutes covered, the first 1

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 08:23 on Tue 3 Oct to 06:24 on Wed 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 19:28 on Tue 3 Oct to 18:19 on Wed 4 Oct. They are together from 19:28 on Tue 3 Oct to 06:24 on Wed 4 Oct.

    1995-10-03T10:28:05Z → 1995-10-03T21:23:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:22–18:08 on the 3rd, 06:22–18:06 on the 4th.

    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 0 of 706 minutes on the 3rd and 1 of 704 on the 4th.

    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 89 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Daegu, 1995: Wednesday 4 October.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Daegu, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1995 falls on Wednesday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 08:23 on Tue 3 Oct to 06:24 on Wed 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 1 minutes. It is 1 min 29 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/daegu/festivals/1995/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 4 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daegu.

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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:28 → 14:2406:49455 min06:500 min3 Oct
Chicago05:28 → 16:2406:49574 min06:510 min3 Oct
Jersey City06:28 → 17:2406:55629 min06:560 min3 Oct
Port of Spain06:28 → 17:2405:55656 min05:550 min3 Oct
London11:28 → 22:2407:04427 min07:050 min3 Oct
Durban12:28 → 23:2405:33330 min05:320 min3 Oct
Dubai14:28 → 01:2406:12216 min06:120 min3 Oct
Delhi15:58 → 02:5406:15127 min06:150 min3 Oct
Kolkata15:58 → 02:5405:2985 min05:290 min3 Oct
Singapore18:28 → 05:2406:5128 min06:510 min3 Oct
Sydney20:28 → 07:2405:310 min05:30114 min4 Oct
Suva22:28 → 09:2405:480 min05:47217 min4 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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