Janmashtami 1973 in Diffa, Niger Mon 20 Aug or Tue 21 Aug
Festival · times in WAT
When is Janmashtami 1973 in Diffa?
Smarta
Monday 20 August
Vaishnava
Tuesday 21 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Mon 20 Aug in DiffaJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Monday 20 August
Vaishnava · Tuesday 21 August
Why is Janmashtami on Mon 20 Aug or Tue 21 Aug in Diffa?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Mon 20 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:16 Tue, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:16 Tue to 22:23 Tue.
Ashtami ended at 22:23; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:16 to 22:23.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+1). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 00:16 on Tue 21 Aug to 22:23 on Tue 21 Aug, so it touches only Monday night’s nishitha (23:49–00:35 Tue).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Tue 21 Aug, at 05:57. 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.