Dashami
{{Short description|Tenth day of the lunar fortnight in the Hindu calendar}}
Dashami ({{Langx|sa|दशमी|translit=Daśamī}}) is the Sanskrit word for "tenth",{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEZjAAAAMAAJ&q=Da%C5%9Bam%C4%AB+tenth |title=Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita Grammar: An Introductory Course Based on Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī's Śrī Hārināmāmṛta-vyākaraṇam |date=2001 |publisher=Shri Krishna Balarama Mandir |pages=33 |language=en}} and is the tenth day in the lunar fortnight (Paksha) of the Hindu calendar. Each month has two Dashami days, being the tenth day of the "bright" (Shukla) and of the "dark" (Krishna) fortnights respectively.{{cite book |author=Manish Verma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z4gzFFLdBoYC&pg=PA10 |title=Fasts and Festivals of India |location=New Delhi |publisher=Diamond Pocket Books |year=2013 |isbn=9788171820764 |page=10 }} Dashami occurs on the tenth and the twenty-fifth day of each month.
Occasions
The Hindu observance of Vijayadashami, celebrated during the festival of Navarati, falls on a dashami.{{cite book |author=Anne T. Mocko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wNREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |title=Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, and the Unraveling of Nepal's Hindu Monarchy |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |isbn=9780190275228 |page=147 }}
References
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- {{cite web|author=Pt. Vilas Thuse|title=Dasara - Vijaya Dashami|url=http://www.panditjiusa.com/dasara_info.htm|website=Holy World of Astrology and Pooja Vidhi|publisher=Pt. Vilas Thuse|accessdate=March 26, 2015|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213925/http://panditjiusa.com/dasara_info.htm|url-status=usurped}}
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