Janmashtami 1921 in Goderich, Western Area, Sierra Leone Thu 25 Aug or Fri 26 Aug
Festival · times in GMT
When is Janmashtami 1921 in Goderich?
Smarta
Thursday 25 August
Vaishnava
Friday 26 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Thursday 25 August
Vaishnava · Friday 26 August
Why is Janmashtami on Thu 25 Aug or Fri 26 Aug in Goderich?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Thu 25 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:09 Fri, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:09 Fri to 23:21 Fri.
Ashtami ended at 23:21; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:09 to 23:21.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 00:09 on Fri 26 Aug to 23:21 on Fri 26 Aug, so it touches only Thursday night’s nishitha (23:31–00:18 Fri).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Fri 26 Aug, at 05:45. 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.