Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1901

Wednesday 23 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 35 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 22 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:00  11:48 madhyāhna ends
10:1210:3611:0011:2411:4812:1212:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 23 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:00  11:48 madhyāhna ends
10:1210:3611:0011:2411:4812:1212:36

48 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 14:07 on Tue 22 Oct to 13:12 on Wed 23 Oct.

    1901-10-22T06:07:24Z → 1901-10-23T05:11:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:00–11:48 on the 22nd, 11:00–11:48 on the 23rd.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2119 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 1901: Wednesday 23 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1901 falls on Wednesday 23 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 14:07 on Tue 22 Oct to 13:12 on Wed 23 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1901/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 23 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 23 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 23 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:07 → 21:1211:1348 min11:130 min22 Oct
Chicago00:07 → 23:1211:1148 min11:110 min22 Oct
Jersey City01:07 → 00:1211:1748 min11:160 min22 Oct
Port of Spain02:07 → 01:1211:2748 min11:260 min22 Oct
London06:07 → 05:1211:2148 min11:210 min22 Oct
Durban07:37 → 06:4210:4748 min10:470 min22 Oct
Dubai09:48 → 08:5311:2048 min11:200 min22 Oct
Delhi11:28 → 10:3311:3348 min11:320 min22 Oct
Kolkata11:28 → 10:3310:488 min10:480 min22 Oct
Singapore13:02 → 12:0711:200 min11:2047 min23 Oct
Sydney16:07 → 15:1211:160 min11:1648 min23 Oct
Suva18:02 → 17:0711:220 min11:2248 min23 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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