Janmashtami 2000 in Mapleton, Utah, United States Mon 21 Aug or Tue 22 Aug
Festival · times in MDT
When is Janmashtami 2000 in Mapleton?
Smarta
Monday 21 August
Vaishnava
Tuesday 22 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Mon 21 Aug in MapletonJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Monday 21 August
Vaishnava · Tuesday 22 August
Why is Janmashtami on Mon 21 Aug or Tue 22 Aug in Mapleton?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Mon 21 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 01:33 Tue, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 01:33 Tue to 00:00 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 00:00 Wed; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 01:33 to 00:00 Wed.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC−6). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 01:33 on Tue 22 Aug to 00:00 on Wed 23 Aug, so it touches only Monday night’s nishitha (01:08 Tue–01:50 Tue).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Tue 22 Aug, at 06:44. 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.