Janmashtami 1900 in Baoding, Hebei, China Fri 17 Aug or Sat 18 Aug
Festival · times in CST
When is Janmashtami 1900 in Baoding?
Smarta
Friday 17 August
Vaishnava
Saturday 18 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Friday 17 August
Vaishnava · Saturday 18 August
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 17 Aug or Sat 18 Aug in Baoding?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 17 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 08:35 Fri.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:07 Sat–00:48 Sat. Ashtami: 08:35 to 07:16 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 07:16; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+8). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 08:35 on Fri 17 Aug to 07:16 on Sat 18 Aug, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:07 Sat–00:48 Sat) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 18 Aug, at 05:38. Reading the Vaishnava rule by sunrise is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta.
- Smarta
- the night whose nishitha Ashtami holds; when it touches both or neither, the later (Dharmasindhu).
- Vaishnava
- a Ashtami that Saptami does not pierce, read at sunrise: Tithika’s convention.