Dasro · Vijayadashami Festival The tenth day: Durga killed Mahishasura, Rama killed Ravana, and the Pandavas took their weapons back from the shami tree.
Dasro · Vijayadashami 2026 falls on Tuesday, 20 October, computed for Chennai.
Latitude, longitude and time zone 13.08, 80.27
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
Goa · Konkani calendar, computed for Chennai
- Tuesday, 20 October 2026
- Saturday, 9 October 2027
- Wednesday, 27 September 2028
Where Dasro · Vijayadashami falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2026: 20 Oct
- 2027: 9 Oct
- 2028: 27 Sep
The dates, year by year
Goa · Konkani calendar, computed for Chennai
| Year | Dasro · Vijayadashami |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Thursday, 2 October 2025 |
| 2026 | Tuesday, 20 October 2026 |
| 2027 | Saturday, 9 October 2027 |
| 2028 | Wednesday, 27 September 2028 |
| 2029 | Tuesday, 16 October 2029 |
| 2030 | Sunday, 6 October 2030 |
| 2031 | Saturday, 25 October 2031 |
| 2032 | Thursday, 14 October 2032 |
| 2033 | Monday, 3 October 2033 |
| 2034 | Sunday, 22 October 2034 |
| 2035 | Thursday, 11 October 2035 |
| 2036 | Monday, 29 September 2036 |
Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.
What the day is
The tenth day: Durga killed Mahishasura, Rama killed Ravana, and the Pandavas took their weapons back from the shami tree. Kerala keeps it as Vidyarambham, when a child is made to write the first letters in a tray of rice at the temple; the north burns the effigies of Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghnad in the evening; Mysore takes the Jamboo Savari elephant procession through the city.
- Deity
- Durga, Rama, Saraswati, Aparajita
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
Clock times for Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at Chennai
Ashwin shuddha Dashami running at aparahna, the fourth of the five parts of the day, which is the reading the Deccan gives it.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Aparahna | 13:04 | the afternoon, three fifths of the daylight after sunrise |
Sunrise 06:00, sunset 17:47, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.
The fast
No fast. Those who kept the nine nights break the fast on this day, and it is the day for starting anything: a lesson, an instrument, a journey.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
- English
- Dasro · Vijayadashami
- தமிழ்
- விஜயதசமி
- తెలుగు
- విజయదశమి
- ಕನ್ನಡ
- ವಿಜಯದಶಮಿ
- മലയാളം
- വിജയദശമി · വിദ്യാരംഭം
- हिन्दी
- विजयादशमी · दशहरा
- ગુજરાતી
- દશેરા
- कोंकणी
- दसरो
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
Where the regions differ
Kerala's Vidyarambham is the strongest form of the day in the south; the Ramlila grounds of the north, Gujarat's fafda and jalebi after the garba, and Mysore's Dasara are its other faces. Bengal and Odisha keep the Dashami that holds the sunrise and immerse the Durga idols on it, where the north, Gujarat and Maharashtra read the same Dashami at aparahna, so the two halves of the country can be a day apart. Konkani calls it Dasro. The makhar that held the goddess through the nine nights comes down on the afternoon, the kaul prasad is taken at the devasthan for the year ahead, and the household tools and books are laid before her in the morning.
The dates above are the Goa · Konkani reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.
Where this day is kept
Nearest first from Chennai, with what is recorded about each.
- Vijayawada, NTR district, Andhra Pradesh
The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. Dasara and the Theppotsavam are its days.
- Mysuru, Karnataka
The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. Ashada Fridays and Mysuru Dasara are its days
- Chhattisgarh
The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. A Shakti Peetha in the Bastar forest whose Devi leads the seventy-five-day Bastar Dussehra.
- Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. Thursday is Baba’s day, and Ram Navami, Guru Purnima and Vijayadashami are its three festivals.
- Sri Badrinath Temple 1,965 kmChamoli, Uttarakhand
The gazetteer line names the day as the edge of this temple’s open season. One of the Char Dham and the last of the 108 Divya Desams, open from Akshaya Tritiya to Vijayadashami.
2 more temples in this gazetteer are recorded for the day. Find temples near you.
A temple is listed here only where the gazetteer's own line names this day, or where this day's own entry names the town, or where the day belongs to the ancestors or the nagas and the temple is recorded for that rite. Where neither table says anything, nothing is listed. Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
Vidyarambham or aksharabhyasam, the first letters. Vijayadashami and Vasant Panchami are the classic days and need no further checking. Otherwise Wednesday and Thursday, the days of Budhan and Guru, are the best, Rikta tithis are left out, and the hour is usually the morning.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.