Janmashtami 2014 in Mapleton, Utah, United States Sat 16 Aug or Sun 17 Aug
Festival · times in MDT
When is Janmashtami 2014 in Mapleton?
Smarta
Saturday 16 August
Vaishnava
Sunday 17 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sat 16 Aug in MapletonJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 16 August
Vaishnava · Sunday 17 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sat 16 Aug or Sun 17 Aug in Mapleton?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sat 16 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 01:10 Sun–01:51 Sun. Ashtami: 18:26 to 18:36 Sun.
Ashtami ended at 18:36; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC−6). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 18:26 on Sat 16 Aug to 18:36 on Sun 17 Aug, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (01:10 Sun–01:51 Sun) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sun 17 Aug, at 06:39. 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.