Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2039

Wednesday 26 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 304 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 Wednesday 26 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

Midday of Thursday 27 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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 05:43 on Wed 26 Oct to 04:48 on Thu 27 Oct.

    2039-10-25T21:43:03Z → 2039-10-26T20:47:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:00–11:48 on the 26th, 11:00–11:48 on the 27th.

    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 48 of 48 minutes on the 26th and 0 of 48 on the 27th.

    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 18244 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 2039: Wednesday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2039 falls on Wednesday 26 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 05:43 on Wed 26 Oct to 04:48 on Thu 27 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2039/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 26 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 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:43 → 13:4812:130 min12:1348 min26 Oct
Chicago16:43 → 15:4812:100 min12:1048 min26 Oct
Jersey City17:43 → 16:4812:160 min12:1648 min26 Oct
Port of Spain17:43 → 16:4811:260 min11:2648 min26 Oct
London22:43 → 21:4812:200 min12:2048 min26 Oct
Durban23:43 → 22:4811:160 min11:1648 min26 Oct
Dubai01:43 → 00:4811:390 min11:3948 min26 Oct
Delhi03:13 → 02:1811:410 min11:4148 min26 Oct
Kolkata03:13 → 02:1810:570 min10:5648 min26 Oct
Singapore05:43 → 04:4812:250 min12:2548 min26 Oct
Sydney08:43 → 07:4812:160 min12:1548 min26 Oct
Suva09:43 → 08:4811:270 min11:2648 min26 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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