Day of Thursday 14 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:51 sunrisesunset 17:27
Daśamī begins 16:22:51
05:2707:2709:2711:2713:2715:2717:2719:27
64 of 696 minutes covered, the last 64
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2021
Boundaryin Riyadh, 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 Thursday 14 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
64 of 696 minutes covered, the last 64
Day of Friday 15 October
Qualifies with 55 of 695 minutes. Not taken.
55 of 695 minutes covered, the first 55
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 16:23 on Thu 14 Oct to 15:33 on Fri 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 07:05 on Thu 14 Oct to 06:46 on Fri 15 Oct. They are together from 16:23 on Thu 14 Oct to 06:46 on Fri 15 Oct.
2021-10-14T13:22:51Z → 2021-10-15T03:46:02Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:51–17:27 on the 14th, 05:51–17:26 on the 15th.
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 64 of 696 minutes on the 14th and 55 of 695 on the 15th.
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 3283 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Riyadh, 2021: Thursday 14 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Riyadh, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2021 falls on Thursday 14 October. Daśamī runs from 16:23 on Thu 14 Oct to 15:33 on Fri 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 64 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 55 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 | Thu 14 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 14 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 14 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Riyadh. | ||
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 14th | Covered | Sunrise 15th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 06:23 → 20:46 | 06:58 | 681 min | 06:59 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Chicago | 08:23 → 22:46 | 07:02 | 587 min | 07:04 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Jersey City | 09:23 → 23:46 | 07:07 | 534 min | 07:08 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 09:23 → 23:46 | 05:55 | 506 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| London | 14:23 → 04:46 | 07:23 | 226 min | 07:25 | 0 min | 14 Oct |
| Durban | 15:23 → 05:46 | 05:19 | 162 min | 05:18 | 28 min | 14 Oct |
| Dubai | 17:23 → 07:46 | 06:17 | 30 min | 06:17 | 89 min | 15 Oct |
| Delhi | 18:53 → 09:16 | 06:21 | 0 min | 06:22 | 174 min | 15 Oct |
| Kolkata | 18:53 → 09:16 | 05:33 | 0 min | 05:33 | 223 min | 15 Oct |
| Singapore | 21:23 → 11:46 | 06:48 | 0 min | 06:48 | 298 min | 15 Oct |
| Sydney | 00:23 → 14:46 | 06:16 | 0 min | 06:14 | 512 min | 15 Oct |
| Suva | 01:23 → 15:46 | 05:38 | 0 min | 05:38 | 608 min | 15 Oct |