Day of Wednesday 8 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:48 sunrisesunset 18:04
Daśamī begins 10:32:18
05:2407:2409:2411:2413:2415:2417:2419:24
452 of 736 minutes covered, the last 452
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1913
Boundaryin Lima, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Wednesday 8 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
452 of 736 minutes covered, the last 452
Day of Thursday 9 October
Qualifies with 403 of 737 minutes. Not taken.
403 of 737 minutes covered, the first 403
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 10:32 on Wed 8 Oct to 12:30 on Thu 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:21 on Wed 8 Oct to 12:51 on Thu 9 Oct. They are together from 10:32 on Wed 8 Oct to 12:30 on Thu 9 Oct.
1913-10-08T15:32:18Z → 1913-10-09T17:29:52Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:48–18:04 on the 8th, 05:47–18:04 on the 9th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 452 of 736 minutes on the 8th and 403 of 737 on the 9th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 17075 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Lima, 1913: Wednesday 8 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Lima, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1913 falls on Wednesday 8 October. Daśamī runs from 10:32 on Wed 8 Oct to 12:30 on Thu 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 452 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 403 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Wed 8 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Wed 8 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Wed 8 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Lima. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Sunrise 9th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 07:32 → 09:30 | 05:53 | 596 min | 05:53 | 217 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 09:32 → 11:30 | 05:55 | 469 min | 05:56 | 334 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 10:32 → 12:30 | 06:00 | 415 min | 06:01 | 389 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 11:32 → 13:30 | 05:55 | 380 min | 05:55 | 455 min | 9 Oct |
| London | 15:32 → 17:30 | 06:12 | 111 min | 06:14 | 668 min | 9 Oct |
| Durban | 17:32 → 19:30 | 05:27 | 28 min | 05:26 | 755 min | 9 Oct |
| Dubai | 19:13 → 21:11 | 05:55 | 0 min | 05:55 | 704 min | 9 Oct |
| Delhi | 21:02 → 23:00 | 06:18 | 0 min | 06:18 | 700 min | 9 Oct |
| Kolkata | 21:02 → 23:00 | 05:30 | 0 min | 05:31 | 707 min | 9 Oct |
| Singapore | 22:32 → 00:30 | 05:50 | 0 min | 05:50 | 725 min | 9 Oct |
| Sydney | 01:32 → 03:30 | 05:24 | 0 min | 05:23 | 760 min | 9 Oct |
| Suva | 03:27 → 05:25 | 05:39 | 0 min | 05:38 | 742 min | 9 Oct |