Janmashtami 2025 in Finote Selam, Amhara, Ethiopia Fri 15 Aug or Sat 16 Aug
Festival · times in EAT
When is Janmashtami 2025 in Finote Selam?
Smarta
Friday 15 August
Vaishnava
Saturday 16 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Friday 15 August
Vaishnava · Saturday 16 August
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 15 Aug or Sat 16 Aug in Finote Selam?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 15 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:12 Sat–00:58 Sat. Ashtami: 21:20 to 19:05 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 19:05; nishitha is Navami.
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 21:20 on Fri 15 Aug to 19:05 on Sat 16 Aug, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:12 Sat–00:58 Sat) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 16 Aug, at 06:21. 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.