Janmashtami 2020 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 11 Aug or Wed 12 Aug

Maharashtra, India

Festival · times in IST

When is Janmashtami 2020 in Pāthardi?

Smarta

Tuesday 11 August

Vaishnava

Wednesday 12 August

Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)

Full panchang for Tue 11 Aug in Pāthardi

Janmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?

Smarta · Tuesday 11 August

Nishita puja muhurat

00:12–00:56 Wed

44 min

Vaishnava · Wednesday 12 August

Nishita puja muhurat

00:11–00:56 Thu

45 min

Open in TithikaSee Janmashtami's date in each of your places, side by side.

Why is Janmashtami on Tue 11 Aug or Wed 12 Aug in Pāthardi?

Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 11 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.

Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 09:07 Tue.

Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:12 Wed–00:56 Wed. Ashtami: 09:07 to 11:16 Wed.

Ashtami ended at 11:16; nishitha is Navami.

One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.

Smarta

Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 09:07 on Tue 11 Aug to 11:16 on Wed 12 Aug, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:12 Wed–00:56 Wed) falls within it.

Vaishnava

Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 12 Aug, at 06:09. 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.