Janmashtami 2097 in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 29 Aug or Fri 30 Aug
Festival · times in UTC+4
When is Janmashtami 2097 in Sevan?
Smarta
Thursday 29 August
Vaishnava
Friday 30 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Thursday 29 August
Vaishnava · Friday 30 August
Why is Janmashtami on Thu 29 Aug or Fri 30 Aug in Sevan?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Thu 29 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:51 Fri, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:51 Fri to 22:56 Fri.
Ashtami ended at 22:56; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:51 to 22:56.
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 00:51 on Fri 30 Aug to 22:56 on Fri 30 Aug, so it touches only Thursday night’s nishitha (00:39 Fri–01:22 Fri).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Fri 30 Aug, at 06:25. 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.