Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2014

Friday 3 October

Determinatein Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 32 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 Friday 3 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:29  12:17 madhyāhna ends
10:4111:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:05

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 4 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:29  12:17 madhyāhna ends
10:4111:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:05

0 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 07:58 on Fri 3 Oct to 05:25 on Sat 4 Oct.

    2014-10-03T04:28:26Z → 2014-10-04T01:54:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:29–12:17 on the 3rd, 11:29–12:17 on the 4th.

    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 48 of 48 minutes on the 3rd and 0 of 48 on the 4th.

    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 1892 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Tehran, 2014: Friday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2014 falls on Friday 3 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 07:58 on Fri 3 Oct to 05:25 on Sat 4 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/2014/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 3 Oct
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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 3rdCoveredMadhyāhna 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:28 → 18:5512:1848 min12:170 min3 Oct
Chicago23:28 → 20:5512:1548 min12:150 min3 Oct
Jersey City00:28 → 21:5512:2148 min12:210 min3 Oct
Port of Spain00:28 → 21:5511:3148 min11:310 min3 Oct
London05:28 → 02:5512:2548 min12:250 min3 Oct
Durban06:28 → 03:5511:2148 min11:210 min3 Oct
Dubai08:28 → 05:5511:4448 min11:430 min3 Oct
Delhi09:58 → 07:2511:4648 min11:460 min4 Oct
Kolkata09:58 → 07:2511:0248 min11:010 min4 Oct
Singapore12:28 → 09:5512:3048 min12:290 min4 Oct
Sydney14:28 → 11:5511:210 min11:2034 min4 Oct
Suva16:28 → 13:5511:320 min11:3148 min4 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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