Janmashtami 2003 in Finote Selam, Amhara, Ethiopia Tue 19 Aug or Wed 20 Aug
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When is Janmashtami 2003 in Finote Selam?
Smarta
Tuesday 19 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 20 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Tue 19 Aug in Finote SelamJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Tuesday 19 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 20 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 19 Aug or Wed 20 Aug in Finote Selam?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 19 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:11 Wed–00:57 Wed. Ashtami: 14:31 to 17:03 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 17:03; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+3). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 14:31 on Tue 19 Aug to 17:03 on Wed 20 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:11 Wed–00:57 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 20 Aug, at 06:21. 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.