Janmashtami 2016 in Thazhecode, Kerala Wed 24 Aug or Thu 25 Aug
Kerala, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 2016 in Thazhecode?
Smarta
Wednesday 24 August
Vaishnava
Thursday 25 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Wed 24 Aug in ThazhecodeJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Wednesday 24 August
Vaishnava · Thursday 25 August
Why is Janmashtami on Wed 24 Aug or Thu 25 Aug in Thazhecode?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Wed 24 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:05 Thu–00:51 Thu. Ashtami: 22:17 to 20:07 Thu.
Ashtami ended at 20:07; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 22:17 on Wed 24 Aug to 20:07 on Thu 25 Aug, so only Wednesday night’s nishitha (00:05 Thu–00:51 Thu) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Thu 25 Aug, at 06:15. 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.