Janmashtami 1918 in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Wed 28 Aug or Thu 29 Aug
Festival · times in CEST
When is Janmashtami 1918 in Myjava?
Smarta
Wednesday 28 August
Vaishnava
Thursday 29 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Wednesday 28 August
Vaishnava · Thursday 29 August
Why is Janmashtami on Wed 28 Aug or Thu 29 Aug in Myjava?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Wed 28 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 10:12 Wed.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:30 Thu–01:11 Thu. Ashtami: 10:12 to 08:49 Thu.
Ashtami ended at 08:49; 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 10:12 on Wed 28 Aug to 08:49 on Thu 29 Aug, so only Wednesday night’s nishitha (00:30 Thu–01:11 Thu) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Thu 29 Aug, at 06:00. 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.