Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2060

Tuesday 5 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 54 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.

05:43 sunrisesunset 17:13
05:1907:1909:1911:1913:1915:1917:1919:19

0 of 690 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 5 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

05:45 sunrisesunset 17:11
Daśamī ends 16:17:16
05:2107:2109:2111:2113:2115:2117:2119:21

633 of 687 minutes covered, the first 633

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 17:04 on Mon 4 Oct to 16:17 on Tue 5 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:45 on Tue 5 Oct to 01:21 on Wed 6 Oct. They are together from 01:45 on Tue 5 Oct to 16:17 on Tue 5 Oct.

    2060-10-04T17:44:42Z → 2060-10-05T08:17:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:43–17:13 on the 4th, 05:45–17:11 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 690 minutes on the 4th and 633 of 687 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 3241 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 2060: Tuesday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2060 falls on Tuesday 5 October. Daśamī runs from 17:04 on Mon 4 Oct to 16:17 on Tue 5 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 633 minutes.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2060/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 Angeles10:45 → 01:1706:51467 min06:510 min4 Oct
Chicago12:45 → 03:1706:52341 min06:530 min4 Oct
Jersey City13:45 → 04:1706:57287 min06:580 min4 Oct
Port of Spain13:45 → 04:1705:55249 min05:550 min4 Oct
London18:45 → 09:1707:080 min07:09128 min5 Oct
Durban19:45 → 10:1705:300 min05:29288 min5 Oct
Dubai21:45 → 12:1706:130 min06:13364 min5 Oct
Delhi23:15 → 13:4706:160 min06:17450 min5 Oct
Kolkata23:15 → 13:4705:300 min05:30497 min5 Oct
Singapore01:45 → 16:1706:510 min06:50567 min5 Oct
Sydney04:45 → 19:1706:280 min06:27754 min5 Oct
Suva05:45 → 20:1705:460 min05:45739 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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