Janmashtami 2034 in Baoding, Hebei, China Tue 5 Sep or Wed 6 Sep
Festival · times in CST
When is Janmashtami 2034 in Baoding?
Smarta
Tuesday 5 September
Vaishnava
Wednesday 6 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Tuesday 5 September
Vaishnava · Wednesday 6 September
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 5 Sep or Wed 6 Sep in Baoding?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 5 Sep: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 08:48 Tue.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 23:54–00:39 Wed. Ashtami: 08:48 to 06:37 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 06:37; 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 08:48 on Tue 5 Sep to 06:37 on Wed 6 Sep, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (23:54–00:39 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 6 Sep, at 05:51. 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.