Janmashtami 2001 in Olean, New York, United States Sat 11 Aug or Sun 12 Aug
Festival · times in EDT
When is Janmashtami 2001 in Olean?
Smarta
Saturday 11 August
Vaishnava
Sunday 12 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sat 11 Aug in OleanJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 11 August
Vaishnava · Sunday 12 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sat 11 Aug or Sun 12 Aug in Olean?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sat 11 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:58 Sun–01:38 Sun. Ashtami: 15:40 to 15:55 Sun.
Ashtami ended at 15:55; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC−4). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 15:40 on Sat 11 Aug to 15:55 on Sun 12 Aug, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (00:58 Sun–01:38 Sun) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sun 12 Aug, at 06:18. 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.