Rama Navami 1985 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 30 Mar or Sun 31 Mar
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 1985 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Saturday 30 March
Vaishnava
Sunday 31 March
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Sat 30 Mar in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 30 March
Vaishnava · Sunday 31 March
Why is Rama Navami on Sat 30 Mar or Sun 31 Mar in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Sat 30 Mar: Navami holds all of madhyahna that day, and no other.
Navami holds all of madhyahna, 11:20–13:47. Navami: 09:49 to 09:28 Sun.
Navami ended at 09:28; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 09:49 Sat to 09:28.
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 09:49 on Sat 30 Mar to 09:28 on Sun 31 Mar, so only Saturday’s madhyahna (11:20–13:47) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Sun 31 Mar, at 06:24. 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.