Janmashtami 2095 in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 21 Aug or Mon 22 Aug
Festival · times in UTC+4
When is Janmashtami 2095 in Sevan?
Smarta
Sunday 21 August
Vaishnava
Monday 22 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Sun 21 Aug in SevanJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Sunday 21 August
Vaishnava · Monday 22 August
Why is Janmashtami on Sun 21 Aug or Mon 22 Aug in Sevan?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Sun 21 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:49 Mon, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:49 Mon to 23:15 Mon.
Ashtami ended at 23:15; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:49 to 23:15.
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 00:49 on Mon 22 Aug to 23:15 on Mon 22 Aug, so it touches only Sunday night’s nishitha (00:42 Mon–01:24 Mon).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Mon 22 Aug, at 06:17. 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.