Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2029

Tuesday 16 October

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 38 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 Monday 15 October

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

06:24 sunrisesunset 18:01
06:0008:0010:0012:0014:0016:0018:0020:00

0 of 697 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:24 sunrisesunset 18:00
Śravaṇa ends 17:22:08
06:0008:0010:0012:0014:0016:0018:0020:00

658 of 696 minutes covered, the first 658

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 04:39 on Tue 16 Oct to 05:24 on Wed 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:18 on Mon 15 Oct to 17:22 on Tue 16 Oct. They are together from 04:39 on Tue 16 Oct to 17:22 on Tue 16 Oct.

    2029-10-15T23:08:32Z → 2029-10-16T11:52:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:24–18:01 on the 15th, 06:24–18:00 on the 16th.

    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 697 minutes on the 15th and 658 of 696 on the 16th.

    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 2278 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Ujjain, 2029: Tuesday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2029 falls on Tuesday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 04:39 on Tue 16 Oct to 05:24 on Wed 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 658 minutes.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2029/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 16 Oct
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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:09 → 04:5206:59129 min07:000 min15 Oct
Chicago18:09 → 06:5207:040 min07:050 min16 Oct
Jersey City19:09 → 07:5207:080 min07:0943 min16 Oct
Port of Spain19:09 → 07:5205:550 min05:55117 min16 Oct
London00:09 → 12:5207:250 min07:27325 min16 Oct
Durban01:09 → 13:5205:180 min05:17515 min16 Oct
Dubai03:09 → 15:5206:170 min06:18574 min16 Oct
Delhi04:39 → 17:2206:220 min06:23659 min16 Oct
Kolkata04:39 → 17:2205:330 min05:34697 min16 Oct
Singapore07:09 → 19:5206:480 min06:48704 min16 Oct
Sydney10:09 → 22:5206:140 min06:13541 min16 Oct
Suva11:09 → 23:5205:380 min05:37419 min16 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