Janmashtami 1981 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 22 Aug or Sun 23 Aug
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 1981 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Saturday 22 August
Vaishnava
Sunday 23 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sat 22 Aug in PāthardiJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 22 August
Vaishnava · Sunday 23 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sat 22 Aug or Sun 23 Aug in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sat 22 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 08:53 Sat.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:09 Sun–00:54 Sun. Ashtami: 08:53 to 06:38 Sun.
Ashtami ended at 06:38; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 08:53 on Sat 22 Aug to 06:38 on Sun 23 Aug, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (00:09 Sun–00:54 Sun) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sun 23 Aug, at 06:11. 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.