Janmashtami 1915 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 1 Sep or Thu 2 Sep
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 1915 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Wednesday 1 September
Vaishnava
Thursday 2 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Wednesday 1 September
Vaishnava · Thursday 2 September
Why is Janmashtami on Wed 1 Sep or Thu 2 Sep in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Wed 1 Sep: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 07:15 Wed.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:06 Thu–00:52 Thu. Ashtami: 07:15 to 09:38 Thu.
Ashtami ended at 09:38; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 07:15 on Wed 1 Sep to 09:38 on Thu 2 Sep, so only Wednesday night’s nishitha (00:06 Thu–00:52 Thu) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Thu 2 Sep, at 06:13. 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.