Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1976

Sunday 3 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 18 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 Saturday 2 October

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

05:40 sunrisesunset 17:18
Śravaṇa begins 18:19:15
05:1607:1609:1611:1613:1615:1617:1619:16

0 of 699 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 3 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

05:41 sunrisesunset 17:16
Daśamī ends 05:59:10
05:1707:1709:1711:1713:1715:1717:1719:17

18 of 695 minutes covered, the first 18

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 06:03 on Sat 2 Oct to 05:59 on Sun 3 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 18:19 on Sat 2 Oct to 19:11 on Sun 3 Oct. They are together from 18:19 on Sat 2 Oct to 05:59 on Sun 3 Oct.

    1976-10-02T10:19:16Z → 1976-10-02T21:59:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:40–17:18 on the 2nd, 05:41–17:16 on the 3rd.

    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 699 minutes on the 2nd and 18 of 695 on the 3rd.

    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 1087 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 1976: Sunday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1976 falls on Sunday 3 October. Daśamī runs from 06:03 on Sat 2 Oct to 05:59 on Sun 3 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 18 minutes.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1976/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 3 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 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:19 → 14:5906:49491 min06:490 min2 Oct
Chicago05:19 → 16:5906:49610 min06:500 min2 Oct
Jersey City06:19 → 17:5906:54665 min06:550 min2 Oct
Port of Spain06:19 → 17:5905:55696 min05:550 min2 Oct
London11:19 → 22:5907:03436 min07:050 min2 Oct
Durban12:19 → 23:5905:33338 min05:320 min2 Oct
Dubai14:19 → 01:5906:11225 min06:120 min2 Oct
Delhi15:49 → 03:2906:15136 min06:150 min2 Oct
Kolkata15:49 → 03:2905:2894 min05:290 min2 Oct
Singapore17:49 → 05:2906:2137 min06:210 min2 Oct
Sydney20:19 → 07:5905:320 min05:30149 min3 Oct
Suva22:19 → 09:5905:480 min05:47252 min3 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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