Janmashtami 1976 in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 17 Aug or Wed 18 Aug
Festival · times in UTC+4
When is Janmashtami 1976 in Sevan?
Smarta
Tuesday 17 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 18 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Tue 17 Aug in SevanJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Tuesday 17 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 18 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 17 Aug or Wed 18 Aug in Sevan?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 17 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:43 Wed–01:24 Wed. Ashtami: 15:00 to 17:18 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 17:18; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+4). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 15:00 on Tue 17 Aug to 17:18 on Wed 18 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:43 Wed–01:24 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 18 Aug, at 06:13. 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.