Janmashtami 2003 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 19 Aug or Wed 20 Aug

Maharashtra, India

Festival · times in IST

When is Janmashtami 2003 in Pāthardi?

Smarta

Tuesday 19 August

Vaishnava

Wednesday 20 August

Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)

Full panchang for Tue 19 Aug in Pāthardi

Janmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?

Smarta · Tuesday 19 August

Nishita puja muhurat

00:10–00:55 Wed

45 min

Vaishnava · Wednesday 20 August

Nishita puja muhurat

00:10–00:55 Thu

45 min

Open in TithikaSee Janmashtami's date in each of your places, side by side.

Why is Janmashtami on Tue 19 Aug or Wed 20 Aug in Pāthardi?

Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 19 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.

Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:10 Wed–00:55 Wed. Ashtami: 17:01 to 19:33 Wed.

Ashtami ended at 19:33; nishitha is Navami.

One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.

Smarta

Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 17:01 on Tue 19 Aug to 19:33 on Wed 20 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:10 Wed–00:55 Wed) falls within it.

Vaishnava

Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 20 Aug, at 06:11. 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.