Janmashtami 2033 in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Tue 16 Aug or Wed 17 Aug
Festival · times in EEST
When is Janmashtami 2033 in Sofia?
Smarta
Tuesday 16 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 17 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Tuesday 16 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 17 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 16 Aug or Wed 17 Aug in Sofia?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 16 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 01:36 Wed, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 01:36 Wed to 23:56 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 23:56; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 01:36 to 23:56.
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 01:36 on Wed 17 Aug to 23:56 on Wed 17 Aug, so it touches only Tuesday night’s nishitha (01:10 Wed–01:51 Wed).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 17 Aug, at 06:35. 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.