Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1982

Wednesday 27 October

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 467 minutes.

Decide it for

MultanDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 26 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:34  12:22 madhyāhna ends
10:4611:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:10

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 27 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:34  12:22 madhyāhna ends
10:4611:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:10

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 20:23 on Tue 26 Oct to 21:48 on Wed 27 Oct.

    1982-10-26T15:23:24Z → 1982-10-27T16:48:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:34–12:22 on the 26th, 11:34–12:22 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 0 of 48 minutes on the 26th and 48 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 28036 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Multan, 1982: Wednesday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1982 falls on Wednesday 27 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 20:23 on Tue 26 Oct to 21:48 on Wed 27 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/1982/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 27 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 26thCoveredMadhyāhna 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:23 → 09:4812:1348 min12:130 min26 Oct
Chicago10:23 → 11:4812:1048 min12:100 min26 Oct
Jersey City11:23 → 12:4812:1648 min12:1632 min26 Oct
Port of Spain11:23 → 12:4811:2648 min11:2648 min26 Oct
London15:23 → 16:4811:200 min11:2048 min27 Oct
Durban17:23 → 18:4811:160 min11:1648 min27 Oct
Dubai19:23 → 20:4811:390 min11:3948 min27 Oct
Delhi20:53 → 22:1811:410 min11:4148 min27 Oct
Kolkata20:53 → 22:1810:560 min10:5648 min27 Oct
Singapore23:23 → 00:4812:250 min12:2548 min27 Oct
Sydney01:23 → 02:4811:160 min11:1548 min27 Oct
Suva03:23 → 04:4811:260 min11:2648 min27 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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