What is the difference between janmashtami and krishna jayanthi

On this Janmashtami, may all your wishes come true and may Nand Gopal shower his blessings on you and your loved ones! Happy Janmashtami! During the ceremonies of Krishna Janmashtami, devotees of Lord Krishna send messages to each other and these short messages help Krishna's devotees to express their love and devotion towards Lord Krishna through a text message. The main deity which is worshipped during Janmashtami is Lord Krishna. Apart from young Lord Krishna, the biological parents of Lord Krishna i.

Vasudeva and Devaki, the foster parents of Lord Krishna i. Nanda and Yashoda and the siblings of Lord Krishna i. This corresponding to August - September months on English calendar and the exact date depends on the lunar cycle. A view of the decorated idol of Lord Krishna at a temple on the eve of Janmashtami. According to mythology, Krishna was the eighth child of Princess Devaki and her husband Vasudeva who belonged to the Yadava clan of Mathura.

Devaki's brother Kansa, who was the king of Mathura at that time, killed all children that were given birth by Devaki in order to prevent him from a prediction that said that Kansa would be killed by Devaki's eighth son. When Krishna was born, Vasudeva took baby Krishna to his friend's house in Gokul, a district in Mathura.

Thereafter, Krishna was brought up by Nanda and his wife Yashoda at Gokul. This holy day is celebrated in different parts of India according to various kinds of local traditions and rituals. People across the country who celebrate Sri Krishna Jayanti keep fasts on this day until midnight when Lord Krishna was born.

However, on that day, not even a tiny bit of saptamI should exist post-sunrise, nor should there be any kRttikA nakshatram. This need not happen in the solar month of AvaNi. There are 12 more cases in the mannAr tradition which get quite complicated. But the primary focus in all is some occurrence of rOhiNI. Some other circumstances such as being on a Wednesday [Sri Krishna is said to be born on this day of the week] push the date in one direction or another. This is why only rarely does the Sri Vaishnava date coincide with the smArta date.

Since the latter exclusively prefers the solar month, their date often falls several weeks later. Further, it also explains why the mannAr observance is often just a day before the tOzhappar date. This is because the mannAr tradition takes into account moonrise whereas the tOzhappar tradition only takes into account sunrise. Note that this janmAshTamI is not the same as the smArta.

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