Janmashtami 1983 in Baoding, Hebei, China Wed 31 Aug or Thu 1 Sep
Festival · times in CST
When is Janmashtami 1983 in Baoding?
Smarta
Wednesday 31 August
Vaishnava
Thursday 1 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Wednesday 31 August
Vaishnava · Thursday 1 September
Why is Janmashtami on Wed 31 Aug or Thu 1 Sep in Baoding?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Wed 31 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 07:39 Wed.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 23:56–00:40 Thu. Ashtami: 07:39 to 06:54 Thu.
Ashtami ended at 06:54; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+8). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 07:39 on Wed 31 Aug to 06:54 on Thu 1 Sep, so only Wednesday night’s nishitha (23:56–00:40 Thu) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Thu 1 Sep, at 05:45. 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.