Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2028

Thursday 28 September

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 61 minutes.

Decide it for

23°11′ N 75°47′ E · Asia/Kolkata · GeoNames 1253914

The two days

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

Day of Wednesday 27 September

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

06:17 sunrisesunset 18:18
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53

0 of 720 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 28 September

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:18 sunrisesunset 18:17
Śravaṇa begins 07:18:29Daśamī ends 09:55:56
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

157 of 719 minutes covered, the first 157

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 08:09 on Wed 27 Sep to 09:56 on Thu 28 Sep, and Śravaṇa from 07:18 on Thu 28 Sep to 10:00 on Fri 29 Sep. They are together from 07:18 on Thu 28 Sep to 09:56 on Thu 28 Sep.

    2028-09-28T01:48:29Z → 2028-09-28T04:25:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:17–18:18 on the 27th, 06:18–18:17 on the 28th.

    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 0 of 720 minutes on the 27th and 157 of 719 on the 28th.

    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 3640 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Ujjain, 2028: Thursday 28 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2028 falls on Thursday 28 September. Daśamī runs from 08:09 on Wed 27 Sep to 09:56 on Thu 28 Sep and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 157 minutes.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2028/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 28 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 28 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 28 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Ujjain.

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 Angeles18:48 → 21:2606:460 min06:470 min27 Sep
Chicago20:48 → 23:2606:450 min06:460 min27 Sep
Jersey City21:48 → 00:2606:510 min06:520 min27 Sep
Port of Spain21:48 → 00:2605:550 min05:550 min27 Sep
London02:48 → 05:2606:570 min06:590 min27 Sep
Durban03:48 → 06:2605:3848 min05:370 min28 Sep
Dubai05:48 → 08:2606:10136 min06:100 min28 Sep
Delhi07:18 → 09:5606:13157 min06:130 min28 Sep
Kolkata07:18 → 09:5605:27157 min05:280 min28 Sep
Singapore09:48 → 12:2606:52157 min06:520 min28 Sep
Sydney11:48 → 14:2605:37157 min05:350 min28 Sep
Suva13:48 → 16:2605:51157 min05:500 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