Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1965

Tuesday 5 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 150 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 Monday 4 October

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

05:42 sunrisesunset 17:15
05:1807:1809:1811:1813:1815:1817:1819:18

0 of 693 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 5 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

05:43 sunrisesunset 17:13
Daśamī ends 14:43:20
05:1907:1909:1911:1913:1915:1917:1919:19

540 of 690 minutes covered, the first 540

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 12:13 on Mon 4 Oct to 14:43 on Tue 5 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 21:38 on Mon 4 Oct to 00:36 on Wed 6 Oct. They are together from 21:38 on Mon 4 Oct to 14:43 on Tue 5 Oct.

    1965-10-04T13:38:17Z → 1965-10-05T06:43:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:42–17:15 on the 4th, 05:43–17:13 on the 5th.

    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 693 minutes on the 4th and 540 of 690 on the 5th.

    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 8983 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 1965: Tuesday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1965 falls on Tuesday 5 October. Daśamī runs from 12:13 on Mon 4 Oct to 14:43 on Tue 5 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 540 minutes.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1965/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 5 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 5 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 5 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.

PlaceDaśamī with ŚravaṇaSunrise 4thCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:38 → 23:4306:50703 min06:510 min4 Oct
Chicago08:38 → 01:4306:51589 min06:520 min4 Oct
Jersey City09:38 → 02:4306:56535 min06:570 min4 Oct
Port of Spain09:38 → 02:4305:55496 min05:550 min4 Oct
London14:38 → 07:4307:06233 min07:0836 min4 Oct
Durban15:38 → 08:4305:31140 min05:30193 min5 Oct
Dubai17:38 → 10:4306:1224 min06:13271 min5 Oct
Delhi19:08 → 12:1306:160 min06:16357 min5 Oct
Kolkata19:08 → 12:1305:290 min05:29404 min5 Oct
Singapore21:08 → 14:1306:210 min06:20473 min5 Oct
Sydney23:38 → 16:4305:290 min05:28675 min5 Oct
Suva01:38 → 18:4305:470 min05:46738 min5 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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