Rama Navami 2012 in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Sat 31 Mar or Sun 1 Apr
Festival · times in EEST
When is Rama Navami 2012 in Khmelnytskyi?
Smarta
Saturday 31 March
Vaishnava
Sunday 1 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Sat 31 Mar in KhmelnytskyiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Saturday 31 March
Vaishnava · Sunday 1 April
Why is Rama Navami on Sat 31 Mar or Sun 1 Apr in Khmelnytskyi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Sat 31 Mar: Navami holds all of madhyahna that day, and no other.
Navami holds all of madhyahna, 11:59–14:33. Navami: 11:12 to 11:38 Sun.
Navami ended at 11:38; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 11:12 Sat to 11:38.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+3). 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 11:12 on Sat 31 Mar to 11:38 on Sun 1 Apr, so only Saturday’s madhyahna (11:59–14:33) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Sun 1 Apr, at 06:48. 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.