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Vijayadashami dates
Computed year by year from the Moon and the Sun. Each row shows the tithi the festival sits on and the lunar month in both the amanta and purnimanta reckonings, because the two name the same month differently during krishna paksha.
Also called: Dussehra, Dasara, Dashain
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Saturday, 9 October 2027
Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new., AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami.
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AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new., taken as aparahnaThe fourth fifth of the daylight, the stretch after midday. Vijayadashami and the shraddha rites are fixed by the tithi running in it.-vyapini: Dashami has to be present in the fourth fifth of the day, which is the Vijaya muhurtaA chosen slice of time for starting something: a wedding, a shop, a journey. Picking one is as much about avoiding the bad windows as finding a good hour. the festival is named for.
The day is settled by the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. at aparahnaThe fourth fifth of the daylight, the stretch after midday. Vijayadashami and the shraddha rites are fixed by the tithi running in it., the fourth fifth of the day.
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Vijayadashami dates
| Year | Date | TithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. | Lunar monthThe lunar month, named after the nakshatra the full Moon lands in. It is about twenty-nine and a half days, so it drifts against the English calendar. |
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| 2025Thursday | Thursday, 2 October 2025 | Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2026Tuesday | Tuesday, 20 October 2026 | Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2027Saturday | Saturday, 9 October 2027 | Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2028Wednesday | Wednesday, 27 September 2028 | Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2029Tuesday | Tuesday, 16 October 2029 | Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2030Sunday | Sunday, 6 October 2030 | Shukla DashamiThe tenth tithi, the one Dussehra sits on in Ashwina. It is among the clean tithis for a wedding or for starting something new. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
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