Rama Navami 2008 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 13 Apr or Mon 14 Apr
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 2008 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Sunday 13 April
Vaishnava
Monday 14 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Sun 13 Apr in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Sunday 13 April
Vaishnava · Monday 14 April
Why is Rama Navami on Sun 13 Apr or Mon 14 Apr in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Sun 13 Apr: Navami touches madhyahna that day, and no other.
Ashtami until 11:25, inside madhyahna; then Navami. Navami: 11:25 to 10:38 Mon.
Navami ended at 10:38; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 11:25 Sun to 10:38.
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 11:25 on Sun 13 Apr to 10:38 on Mon 14 Apr, so it touches only Sunday’s madhyahna (11:14–13:45).
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Mon 14 Apr, at 06:12. 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.