Rama Navami 1948 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 17 Apr or Sun 18 Apr
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 1948 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Saturday 17 April
Vaishnava
Sunday 18 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Sat 17 Apr in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 17 April
Vaishnava · Sunday 18 April
Why is Rama Navami on Sat 17 Apr or Sun 18 Apr in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Sat 17 Apr: Navami touches madhyahna that day, and no other.
Ashtami until 12:06, inside madhyahna; then Navami. Navami: 12:06 to 09:45 Sun.
Navami ended at 09:45; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 12:06 Sat to 09:45.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). 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 12:06 on Sat 17 Apr to 09:45 on Sun 18 Apr, so it touches only Saturday’s madhyahna (11:13–13:44).
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Sun 18 Apr, at 06:09. 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.