Janmashtami 2014 in Baoding, Hebei, China Sun 17 Aug or Mon 18 Aug
Festival · times in CST
When is Janmashtami 2014 in Baoding?
Smarta
Sunday 17 August
Vaishnava
Monday 18 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sun 17 Aug in BaodingJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Sunday 17 August
Vaishnava · Monday 18 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sun 17 Aug or Mon 18 Aug in Baoding?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sun 17 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 08:26 Sun.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:01 Mon–00:43 Mon. Ashtami: 08:26 to 08:36 Mon.
Ashtami ended at 08:36; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+8). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 08:26 on Sun 17 Aug to 08:36 on Mon 18 Aug, so only Sunday night’s nishitha (00:01 Mon–00:43 Mon) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Mon 18 Aug, at 05:33. 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.