Janmashtami 2015 in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Fri 4 Sep or Sat 5 Sep
Festival · times in EEST
When is Janmashtami 2015 in Khmelnytskyi?
Smarta
Friday 4 September
Vaishnava
Saturday 5 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Friday 4 September
Vaishnava · Saturday 5 September
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 4 Sep or Sat 5 Sep in Khmelnytskyi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 4 Sep: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 01:25 Sat, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 01:25 Sat to 00:32 Sun.
Ashtami ended at 00:32 Sun; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 01:25 to 00:32 Sun.
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 01:25 on Sat 5 Sep to 00:32 on Sun 6 Sep, so it touches only Friday night’s nishitha (00:49 Sat–01:32 Sat).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 5 Sep, at 06:32. 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.