Janmashtami 1919 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Mon 18 Aug or Tue 19 Aug
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 1919 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Monday 18 August
Vaishnava
Tuesday 19 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Mon 18 Aug in PāthardiJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Monday 18 August
Vaishnava · Tuesday 19 August
Why is Janmashtami on Mon 18 Aug or Tue 19 Aug in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Mon 18 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 10:29 Mon.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:10 Tue–00:55 Tue. Ashtami: 10:29 to 08:22 Tue.
Ashtami ended at 08:22; 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 10:29 on Mon 18 Aug to 08:22 on Tue 19 Aug, so only Monday night’s nishitha (00:10 Tue–00:55 Tue) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Tue 19 Aug, at 06:10. 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.