Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1963

Saturday 28 September

Determinatein Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 28 minutes.

Decide it for

35°42′ N 51°25′ E · Asia/Tehran · GeoNames 112931

The two days

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

Day of Saturday 28 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

05:56 sunrisesunset 17:54
Śravaṇa begins 15:45:24Daśamī ends 18:21:25
05:3207:3209:3211:3213:3215:3217:3219:32

128 of 717 minutes covered, the last 128

Day of Sunday 29 September

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

05:57 sunrisesunset 17:52
05:3307:3309:3311:3313:3315:3317:3319:33

0 of 715 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 18:04 on Fri 27 Sep to 18:21 on Sat 28 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 15:45 on Sat 28 Sep to 15:57 on Sun 29 Sep. They are together from 15:45 on Sat 28 Sep to 18:21 on Sat 28 Sep.

    1963-09-28T12:15:25Z → 1963-09-28T14:51:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:56–17:54 on the 28th, 05:57–17:52 on the 29th.

    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 128 of 717 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 715 on the 29th.

    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 1671 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Tehran, 1963: Saturday 28 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1963 falls on Saturday 28 September. Daśamī runs from 18:04 on Fri 27 Sep to 18:21 on Sat 28 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 128 minutes.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/1963/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 28 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 28 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 28 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Tehran.

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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:15 → 07:5106:4566 min06:460 min28 Sep
Chicago07:15 → 09:5106:44156 min06:450 min28 Sep
Jersey City08:15 → 10:5106:49156 min06:500 min28 Sep
Port of Spain08:15 → 10:5105:55156 min05:550 min28 Sep
London13:15 → 15:5106:55156 min06:570 min28 Sep
Durban14:15 → 16:5105:39156 min05:380 min28 Sep
Dubai16:15 → 18:5106:09114 min06:100 min28 Sep
Delhi17:45 → 20:2106:1226 min06:130 min28 Sep
Kolkata17:45 → 20:2105:270 min05:270 min28 Sep
Singapore19:45 → 22:2106:230 min06:220 min28 Sep
Sydney22:15 → 00:5105:380 min05:370 min28 Sep
Suva00:15 → 02:5105:520 min05:510 min28 Sep
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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