Rama Navami 2013 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 19 Apr or Sat 20 Apr
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 2013 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Friday 19 April
Vaishnava
Saturday 20 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Fri 19 Apr in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Friday 19 April
Vaishnava · Saturday 20 April
Why is Rama Navami on Fri 19 Apr or Sat 20 Apr in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Fri 19 Apr: Navami holds all of madhyahna that day, and no other.
Navami holds all of madhyahna, 11:12–13:44. Navami: 06:54 to 08:15 Sat.
Navami ended at 08:15; madhyahna is Dashami.
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 06:54 on Fri 19 Apr to 08:15 on Sat 20 Apr, so only Friday’s madhyahna (11:12–13:44) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Sat 20 Apr, at 06:08. 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.