Day of Saturday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:21 sunrisesunset 18:07
Śravaṇa begins 10:18:17
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57
469 of 705 minutes covered, the last 469
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2027
Boundaryin Ujjain, 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 Saturday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
469 of 705 minutes covered, the last 469
Day of Sunday 10 October
Qualifies with 319 of 704 minutes. Not taken.
319 of 704 minutes covered, the first 319
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 09:02 on Sat 9 Oct to 11:41 on Sun 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:18 on Sat 9 Oct to 13:26 on Sun 10 Oct. They are together from 10:18 on Sat 9 Oct to 11:41 on Sun 10 Oct.
2027-10-09T04:48:18Z → 2027-10-10T06:11:09Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–18:07 on the 9th, 06:22–18:06 on the 10th.
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 469 of 705 minutes on the 9th and 319 of 704 on the 10th.
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 14212 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Ujjain, 2027: Saturday 9 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Ujjain, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2027 falls on Saturday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 09:02 on Sat 9 Oct to 11:41 on Sun 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 469 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 319 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 | Sat 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 9 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Ujjain. | ||
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 9th | Covered | Sunrise 10th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 21:48 → 23:11 | 06:54 | 693 min | 06:54 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Chicago | 23:48 → 01:11 | 06:56 | 682 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Jersey City | 00:48 → 02:11 | 07:01 | 684 min | 07:02 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 00:48 → 02:11 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| London | 05:48 → 07:11 | 07:14 | 666 min | 07:16 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Durban | 06:48 → 08:11 | 05:25 | 673 min | 05:24 | 167 min | 9 Oct |
| Dubai | 08:48 → 10:11 | 06:14 | 549 min | 06:15 | 236 min | 9 Oct |
| Delhi | 10:18 → 11:41 | 06:18 | 460 min | 06:19 | 322 min | 9 Oct |
| Kolkata | 10:18 → 11:41 | 05:31 | 419 min | 05:31 | 370 min | 9 Oct |
| Singapore | 12:48 → 14:11 | 06:49 | 366 min | 06:49 | 442 min | 10 Oct |
| Sydney | 15:48 → 17:11 | 06:23 | 195 min | 06:21 | 650 min | 10 Oct |
| Suva | 16:48 → 18:11 | 05:43 | 77 min | 05:42 | 744 min | 10 Oct |