Janmashtami 1993 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 10 Aug or Wed 11 Aug
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 1993 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Tuesday 10 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 11 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Tue 10 Aug in PāthardiJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Tuesday 10 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 11 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 10 Aug or Wed 11 Aug in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 10 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 07:53 Tue.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:12 Wed–00:56 Wed. Ashtami: 07:53 to 09:36 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 09:36; 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 07:53 on Tue 10 Aug to 09:36 on Wed 11 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:12 Wed–00:56 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 11 Aug, at 06:08. 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.