Rama Navami 1971 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 3 Apr or Sun 4 Apr
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 1971 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Saturday 3 April
Vaishnava
Sunday 4 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Sat 3 Apr in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 3 April
Vaishnava · Sunday 4 April
Why is Rama Navami on Sat 3 Apr or Sun 4 Apr in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Sat 3 Apr: Navami holds all of madhyahna that day, and no other.
Navami holds all of madhyahna, 11:18–13:47. Navami: 09:42 to 11:09 Sun.
Navami ended at 11:09; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 09:42 Sat to 11:09.
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 09:42 on Sat 3 Apr to 11:09 on Sun 4 Apr, so only Saturday’s madhyahna (11:18–13:47) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Sun 4 Apr, at 06:21. 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.