Janmashtami 1972 in Baoding, Hebei, China Thu 31 Aug or Fri 1 Sep
Festival · times in CST
When is Janmashtami 1972 in Baoding?
Smarta
Thursday 31 August
Vaishnava
Friday 1 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Thursday 31 August
Vaishnava · Friday 1 September
Why is Janmashtami on Thu 31 Aug or Fri 1 Sep in Baoding?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Thu 31 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 09:53 Thu.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 23:56–00:40 Fri. Ashtami: 09:53 to 07:46 Fri.
Ashtami ended at 07:46; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+8). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 09:53 on Thu 31 Aug to 07:46 on Fri 1 Sep, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (23:56–00:40 Fri) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Fri 1 Sep, at 05:46. 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.