Durga Ashtami 1925
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:48
- Sunset17:50
- Fasting window (tithi)06:16 → 1925-09-26 · 04:25
- Parana (tithi ends)04:251925-09-26
Festival days follow the classical attribution rules — udaya (sunrise), pradosha (evening), nishita (midnight), madhyahna or aparahna vyapini as each festival prescribes — computed for Kashi/Varanasi (IST). Regional observance can differ by a day in some years.
Read the Durga Ashtami puja vidhi, vrat rules and kathaDurga Ashtami — Frequently Asked Questions
When is Durga Ashtami celebrated?
On the Ashtami of the Shukla Paksha of Ashvina — the eighth day of Sharad Navratri, in autumn, two days before Vijayadashami. For this year's date, see the date shown above.
What is Sandhi Puja?
The worship performed across the joining of Ashtami and Navami — the last ghati of the eighth tithi and the first of the ninth. It marks the moment Durga took the Chamunda form to slay Chanda and Munda, and is the high point of Durga Puja.
Is Kanya Puja done on Ashtami or Navami?
It is done on either, and many families keep it on Mahashtami. Young girls are worshipped as living forms of the goddess, their feet washed, fed bhog, and given a gift and dakshina.
How is Durga Ashtami different from Maha Navami?
Ashtami invokes the goddess's fiercest forms and carries the Sandhi Puja; Navami, the following day, completes the worship with the homa and Ayudha Puja before the victory of Dussehra.
Other major festivals in 1925
- Makar Sankranti — 13 January 1925
- Vasant Panchami — 29 January 1925
- Maha Shivaratri — 21 February 1925
- Holika Dahan — 10 March 1925
- Holi — 11 March 1925
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 25 March 1925
- Ram Navami — 2 April 1925
- Akshaya Tritiya — 25 April 1925
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 23 June 1925
- Guru Purnima — 6 July 1925
- Nag Panchami — 26 July 1925
- Raksha Bandhan — 4 August 1925
- Krishna Janmashtami — 11 August 1925
- Hartalika Teej — 22 August 1925
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 23 August 1925
- Anant Chaturdashi — 1 September 1925
- Pitru Paksha begins — 3 September 1925
- Sharad Navratri begins — 19 September 1925
- Maha Navami — 26 September 1925
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 27 September 1925
- Karwa Chauth — 5 October 1925
- Dhanteras — 15 October 1925
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 16 October 1925
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 17 October 1925
- Govardhan Puja — 18 October 1925
- Bhai Dooj — 19 October 1925
- Chhath Puja — 23 October 1925
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 31 October 1925
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 31 October 1925
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