Janmashtami 2052 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 17 Aug or Sun 18 Aug
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 2052 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Saturday 17 August
Vaishnava
Sunday 18 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sat 17 Aug in PāthardiJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 17 August
Vaishnava · Sunday 18 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sat 17 Aug or Sun 18 Aug in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sat 17 Aug: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 09:18 Sat.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:10 Sun–00:55 Sun. Ashtami: 09:18 to 07:06 Sun.
Ashtami ended at 07:06; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 09:18 on Sat 17 Aug to 07:06 on Sun 18 Aug, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (00:10 Sun–00:55 Sun) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sun 18 Aug, at 06:11. 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.