Janmashtami 2019 in Baoding, Hebei, China Fri 23 Aug or Sat 24 Aug
Festival · times in CST
When is Janmashtami 2019 in Baoding?
Smarta
Friday 23 August
Vaishnava
Saturday 24 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Friday 23 August
Vaishnava · Saturday 24 August
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 23 Aug or Sat 24 Aug in Baoding?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 23 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 10:39 Fri.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 23:59–00:42 Sat. Ashtami: 10:39 to 11:02 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 11:02; 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 10:39 on Fri 23 Aug to 11:02 on Sat 24 Aug, so only Friday night’s nishitha (23:59–00:42 Sat) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 24 Aug, at 05:39. 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.