Janmashtami 2024 in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Sun 25 Aug or Mon 26 Aug
Festival · times in EEST
When is Janmashtami 2024 in Sofia?
Smarta
Sunday 25 August
Vaishnava
Monday 26 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sun 25 Aug in SofiaJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Sunday 25 August
Vaishnava · Monday 26 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sun 25 Aug or Mon 26 Aug in Sofia?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sun 25 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 01:09 Mon, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 01:09 Mon to 23:50 Mon.
Ashtami ended at 23:50; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 01:09 to 23:50.
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 01:09 on Mon 26 Aug to 23:50 on Mon 26 Aug, so it touches only Sunday night’s nishitha (01:07 Mon–01:50 Mon).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Mon 26 Aug, at 06:45. 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.