Rama Navami 1908 in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa Thu 9 Apr or Fri 10 Apr
Festival · times in SAST
When is Rama Navami 1908 in Maclear?
Smarta
Thursday 9 April
Vaishnava
Friday 10 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Thu 9 Apr in MaclearRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Thursday 9 April
Vaishnava · Friday 10 April
Why is Rama Navami on Thu 9 Apr or Fri 10 Apr in Maclear?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Thu 9 Apr: Navami holds all of madhyahna that day, and no other.
Navami holds all of madhyahna, 10:58–13:17. Navami: 07:45 to 10:21 Fri.
Navami ended at 10:21; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 07:45 Thu to 10:21.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+2). Band: the tithi. Box: Madhyahna. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
Rama’s birth is celebrated at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day. Navami runs from 07:45 on Thu 9 Apr to 10:21 on Fri 10 Apr, so only Thursday’s madhyahna (10:58–13:17) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Fri 10 Apr, at 06:22. Reading the Vaishnava rule by sunrise is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Rama’s birth is celebrated at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day.
- Smarta
- the day whose madhyahna Navami holds; when it touches both or neither, the later (Dharmasindhu).
- Vaishnava
- a Navami that Ashtami does not pierce, read at sunrise: Tithika’s convention.