Janmashtami 1900 in Mapleton, Utah, United States Thu 16 Aug or Fri 17 Aug
Festival · times in MST
When is Janmashtami 1900 in Mapleton?
Smarta
Thursday 16 August
Vaishnava
Friday 17 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Thursday 16 August
Vaishnava · Friday 17 August
Why is Janmashtami on Thu 16 Aug or Fri 17 Aug in Mapleton?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Thu 16 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:10 Fri–00:51 Fri. Ashtami: 17:30 to 16:11 Fri.
Ashtami ended at 16:11; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC−7). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 17:30 on Thu 16 Aug to 16:11 on Fri 17 Aug, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (00:10 Fri–00:51 Fri) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Fri 17 Aug, at 05:39. 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.