Day of Thursday 14 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
05:59 sunrisesunset 17:28
05:3507:3509:3511:3513:3515:3517:3519:35
0 of 689 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2021
Determinatein Shaoxing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 235 minutes.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 14 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 689 minutes covered
Day of Friday 15 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
346 of 687 minutes covered, the first 346
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 21:23 on Thu 14 Oct to 20:33 on Fri 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 12:05 on Thu 14 Oct to 11:46 on Fri 15 Oct. They are together from 21:23 on Thu 14 Oct to 11:46 on Fri 15 Oct.
2021-10-14T13:22:51Z → 2021-10-15T03:46:02Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:59–17:28 on the 14th, 06:00–17:27 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 0 of 689 minutes on the 14th and 346 of 687 on the 15th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 14091 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Shaoxing, 2021: Friday 15 October.
confidence: determinate
In Shaoxing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2021 falls on Friday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 21:23 on Thu 14 Oct to 20:33 on Fri 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 346 minutes.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Fri 15 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Fri 15 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Fri 15 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Shaoxing. | ||
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 |