Janmashtami 2054 in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 25 Aug or Wed 26 Aug
Festival · times in UTC+4
When is Janmashtami 2054 in Sevan?
Smarta
Tuesday 25 August
Vaishnava
Wednesday 26 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Tuesday 25 August
Vaishnava · Wednesday 26 August
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 25 Aug or Wed 26 Aug in Sevan?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 25 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 01:05 Wed, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 01:05 Wed to 00:36 Thu.
Ashtami ended at 00:36 Thu; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 01:05 to 00:36 Thu.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+4). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 01:05 on Wed 26 Aug to 00:36 on Thu 27 Aug, so it touches only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:40 Wed–01:23 Wed).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 26 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.