Janmashtami 1921 in Azhatebage, Xinjiang, China Fri 26 Aug or Sat 27 Aug
Festival · times in UTC+6
When is Janmashtami 1921 in Azhatebage?
Smarta
Friday 26 August
Vaishnava
Saturday 27 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Fri 26 Aug in AzhatebageJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Friday 26 August
Vaishnava · Saturday 27 August
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 26 Aug or Sat 27 Aug in Azhatebage?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 26 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 07:00 Fri.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:20 Sat–01:03 Sat. Ashtami: 07:00 to 06:11 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 06:11; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+6). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 07:00 on Fri 26 Aug to 06:11 on Sat 27 Aug, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:20 Sat–01:03 Sat) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 27 Aug, at 06:03. 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.