Janmashtami 2061 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 6 Sep or Wed 7 Sep
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Janmashtami 2061 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Tuesday 6 September
Vaishnava
Wednesday 7 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Tuesday 6 September
Vaishnava · Wednesday 7 September
Why is Janmashtami on Tue 6 Sep or Wed 7 Sep in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Tue 6 Sep: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:04 Wed–00:50 Wed. Ashtami: 15:50 to 13:35 Wed.
Ashtami ended at 13:35; 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 15:50 on Tue 6 Sep to 13:35 on Wed 7 Sep, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:04 Wed–00:50 Wed) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Wed 7 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.