Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2017

Saturday 30 September

Determinatein Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 94 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two days

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

Day of Saturday 30 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

05:59 sunrisesunset 17:49
Śravaṇa begins 16:15:26
05:3507:3509:3511:3513:3515:3517:3519:35

94 of 711 minutes covered, the last 94

Day of Sunday 1 October

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

05:59 sunrisesunset 17:48
05:3507:3509:3511:3513:3515:3517:3519:35

0 of 708 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 21:50 on Fri 29 Sep to 23:36 on Sat 30 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 16:15 on Sat 30 Sep to 18:09 on Sun 1 Oct. They are together from 16:15 on Sat 30 Sep to 23:36 on Sat 30 Sep.

    2017-09-30T12:45:27Z → 2017-09-30T20:06:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:59–17:49 on the 30th, 05:59–17:48 on the 1st.

    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 94 of 711 minutes on the 30th and 0 of 708 on the 1st.

    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 5635 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Tehran, 2017: Saturday 30 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2017 falls on Saturday 30 September. Daśamī runs from 21:50 on Fri 29 Sep to 23:36 on Sat 30 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 94 minutes.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/2017/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 30 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 30 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 30 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 30thCoveredSunrise 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:45 → 13:0606:47379 min06:480 min30 Sep
Chicago07:45 → 15:0606:47441 min06:480 min30 Sep
Jersey City08:45 → 16:0606:52441 min06:530 min30 Sep
Port of Spain08:45 → 16:0605:55441 min05:550 min30 Sep
London13:45 → 21:0607:00294 min07:020 min30 Sep
Durban14:45 → 22:0605:36191 min05:350 min30 Sep
Dubai16:45 → 00:0606:1181 min06:110 min30 Sep
Delhi18:15 → 01:3606:140 min06:140 min30 Sep
Kolkata18:15 → 01:3605:280 min05:280 min30 Sep
Singapore20:45 → 04:0606:520 min06:520 min30 Sep
Sydney22:45 → 07:0605:340 min06:3333 min1 Oct
Suva00:45 → 08:0605:500 min05:49137 min1 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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