Janmashtami 2011 in Finote Selam, Amhara, Ethiopia Sun 21 Aug or Mon 22 Aug
Festival · times in EAT
When is Janmashtami 2011 in Finote Selam?
Smarta
Sunday 21 August
Vaishnava
Monday 22 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sun 21 Aug in Finote SelamJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Sunday 21 August
Vaishnava · Monday 22 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sun 21 Aug or Mon 22 Aug in Finote Selam?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sun 21 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:10 Mon–00:57 Mon. Ashtami: 11:55 to 13:45 Mon.
Ashtami ended at 13:45; 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 11:55 on Sun 21 Aug to 13:45 on Mon 22 Aug, so only Sunday night’s nishitha (00:10 Mon–00:57 Mon) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Mon 22 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.