Janmashtami 2085 in Myshkin, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia Sat 11 Aug or Sun 12 Aug
Festival · times in MSK
When is Janmashtami 2085 in Myshkin?
Smarta
Saturday 11 August
Vaishnava
Sunday 12 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Saturday 11 August
Vaishnava · Sunday 12 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sat 11 Aug or Sun 12 Aug in Myshkin?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sat 11 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:18 Sun, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:18 Sun to 23:55 Sun.
Ashtami ended at 23:55; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:18 to 23:55.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+3). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 00:18 on Sun 12 Aug to 23:55 on Sun 12 Aug, so it touches only Saturday night’s nishitha (00:14 Sun–00:48 Sun).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sun 12 Aug, at 04:44. 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.