Janmashtami 2053 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 5 Sep or Sat 6 Sep
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 2053 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Friday 5 September
Vaishnava
Saturday 6 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Fri 5 Sep in PāthardiJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Friday 5 September
Vaishnava · Saturday 6 September
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 5 Sep or Sat 6 Sep in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 5 Sep: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 11:31 Fri.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:04 Sat–00:50 Sat. Ashtami: 11:31 to 09:33 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 09:33; 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 11:31 on Fri 5 Sep to 09:33 on Sat 6 Sep, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:04 Sat–00:50 Sat) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 6 Sep, at 06:15. 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.