Janmashtami 1908 in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa Tue 18 Aug or Wed 19 Aug
Festival · times in SAST
When is Janmashtami 1908 in Maclear?
Smarta
Tuesday 18 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 19 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Tuesday 18 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 19 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 18 Aug or Wed 19 Aug in Maclear?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 18 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 11:34 Tue.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 23:43–00:35 Wed. Ashtami: 11:34 to 11:27 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 11:27; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+2). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 11:34 on Tue 18 Aug to 11:27 on Wed 19 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (23:43–00:35 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 19 Aug, at 06:37. 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.