Rama Navami 2017 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 4 Apr or Wed 5 Apr
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 2017 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Tuesday 4 April
Vaishnava
Wednesday 5 April
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Tue 4 Apr in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Tuesday 4 April
Vaishnava · Wednesday 5 April
Why is Rama Navami on Tue 4 Apr or Wed 5 Apr in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Tue 4 Apr: Navami touches madhyahna that day, and no other.
Ashtami until 11:20, inside madhyahna; then Navami. Navami: 11:20 to 10:04 Wed.
Navami ended at 10:04; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 11:20 Tue to 10:04.
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 11:20 on Tue 4 Apr to 10:04 on Wed 5 Apr, so it touches only Tuesday’s madhyahna (11:18–13:46).
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Wed 5 Apr, at 06:19. 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.