Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1920

Friday 22 October

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 178 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 Thursday 21 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:05  12:53 madhyāhna ends
11:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:1713:41

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 22 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:04  12:52 madhyāhna ends
11:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:1613:40

48 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 21:05 on Thu 21 Oct to 22:31 on Fri 22 Oct.

    1920-10-21T15:35:12Z → 1920-10-22T17:00:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:05–12:53 on the 21st, 12:04–12:52 on the 22nd.

    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 0 of 48 minutes on the 21st and 48 of 48 on the 22nd.

    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 10677 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Multan, 1920: Friday 22 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1920 falls on Friday 22 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 21:05 on Thu 21 Oct to 22:31 on Fri 22 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/1920/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 22 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 22 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 22 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Multan.

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 21stCoveredMadhyāhna 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:35 → 09:0111:1348 min11:130 min21 Oct
Chicago10:35 → 12:0112:1148 min12:110 min21 Oct
Jersey City11:35 → 13:0112:1748 min12:1744 min21 Oct
Port of Spain11:35 → 13:0111:2739 min11:2748 min21 Oct
London16:35 → 18:0112:210 min12:2148 min21 Oct
Durban17:35 → 19:0111:170 min11:1748 min21 Oct
Dubai19:35 → 21:0111:390 min11:3948 min22 Oct
Delhi21:05 → 22:3111:420 min11:4148 min22 Oct
Kolkata21:05 → 22:3110:570 min10:5748 min22 Oct
Singapore22:35 → 00:0111:250 min11:2548 min22 Oct
Sydney01:35 → 03:0111:160 min11:1648 min22 Oct
Suva03:35 → 05:0111:270 min11:2748 min22 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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