Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2000

Saturday 7 October

Determinatein Lima, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 264 minutes.

Decide it for

12°03′ S 77°02′ W · America/Lima · GeoNames 3936456

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Saturday 7 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

05:48 sunrisesunset 18:04
05:2407:2409:2411:2413:2415:2417:2419:24

736 of 736 minutes covered

Day of Sunday 8 October

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

05:47 sunrisesunset 18:04
05:2307:2309:2311:2313:2315:2317:2319:23

0 of 737 minutes covered

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 21:55 on Fri 6 Oct to 00:19 on Sun 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:23 on Sat 7 Oct to 04:14 on Sun 8 Oct. They are together from 01:23 on Sat 7 Oct to 00:19 on Sun 8 Oct.

    2000-10-07T06:23:24Z → 2000-10-08T05:18:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:48–18:04 on the 7th, 05:47–18:04 on the 8th.

    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 736 of 736 minutes on the 7th and 0 of 737 on the 8th.

    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 15861 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Lima, 2000: Saturday 7 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Lima, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2000 falls on Saturday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 21:55 on Fri 6 Oct to 00:19 on Sun 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 736 minutes.

ahargana.org/lima/festivals/2000/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 7 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Lima.

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 7thCoveredSunrise 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:23 → 22:1906:52696 min06:530 min7 Oct
Chicago01:23 → 00:1906:55686 min06:560 min7 Oct
Jersey City02:23 → 01:1907:00688 min07:010 min7 Oct
Port of Spain02:23 → 01:1905:55718 min05:550 min7 Oct
London07:23 → 06:1907:12660 min07:130 min7 Oct
Durban08:23 → 07:1905:27577 min05:26113 min7 Oct
Dubai10:23 → 09:1906:14456 min06:14185 min7 Oct
Delhi11:53 → 10:4906:18366 min06:18271 min7 Oct
Kolkata11:53 → 10:4905:30325 min05:31318 min7 Oct
Singapore14:23 → 13:1906:50272 min06:50389 min8 Oct
Sydney17:23 → 16:1906:2599 min06:23595 min8 Oct
Suva18:23 → 17:1905:440 min05:43696 min8 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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