Janmashtami 2000 in Split, Split-Dalmatia, Croatia Tue 22 Aug or Wed 23 Aug
Festival · times in CEST
When is Janmashtami 2000 in Split?
Smarta
Tuesday 22 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 23 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Tuesday 22 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 23 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 22 Aug or Wed 23 Aug in Split?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 22 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 09:33 Tue.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:36 Wed–01:18 Wed. Ashtami: 09:33 to 08:00 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 08:00; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+2). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 09:33 on Tue 22 Aug to 08:00 on Wed 23 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:36 Wed–01:18 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 23 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.