Janmashtami 1981 in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Fri 21 Aug or Sat 22 Aug
Festival · times in UTC−3
When is Janmashtami 1981 in Ipameri?
Smarta
Friday 21 August
Vaishnava
Saturday 22 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Friday 21 August
Vaishnava · Saturday 22 August
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 21 Aug or Sat 22 Aug in Ipameri?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 21 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:23 Sat, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:23 Sat to 22:08 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 22:08; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:23 to 22:08.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC−3). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 00:23 on Sat 22 Aug to 22:08 on Sat 22 Aug, so it touches only Friday night’s nishitha (23:50–00:40 Sat).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 22 Aug, at 06:27. 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.