Janmashtami 1979 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 14 Aug or Wed 15 Aug

Maharashtra, India

Festival · times in IST

When is Janmashtami 1979 in Pāthardi?

Smarta

Tuesday 14 August

Vaishnava

Wednesday 15 August

Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)

Full panchang for Tue 14 Aug in Pāthardi

Janmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?

Smarta · Tuesday 14 August

Nishita puja muhurat

00:11–00:56 Wed

45 min

Vaishnava · Wednesday 15 August

Nishita puja muhurat

00:11–00:56 Thu

45 min

Open in TithikaSee Janmashtami's date in each of your places, side by side.

Why is Janmashtami on Tue 14 Aug or Wed 15 Aug in Pāthardi?

Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 14 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.

Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:11 Wed–00:56 Wed. Ashtami: 12:57 to 12:15 Wed.

Ashtami ended at 12:15; nishitha is Navami.

One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.

Smarta

Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 12:57 on Tue 14 Aug to 12:15 on Wed 15 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:11 Wed–00:56 Wed) falls within it.

Vaishnava

Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 15 Aug, at 06:09. 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.