Durga Ashtami 1942
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:57
- Sunset17:29
- Fasting window (tithi)1942-10-16 · 17:28 → 15:29
- Parana (tithi ends)15:29
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 1942
- Makar Sankranti — 14 January 1942
- Vasant Panchami — 21 January 1942
- Maha Shivaratri — 13 February 1942
- Holika Dahan — 2 March 1942
- Holi — 3 March 1942
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 17 March 1942
- Ram Navami — 26 March 1942
- Akshaya Tritiya — 18 April 1942
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 15 July 1942
- Guru Purnima — 27 July 1942
- Nag Panchami — 17 August 1942
- Raksha Bandhan — 26 August 1942
- Krishna Janmashtami — 2 September 1942
- Hartalika Teej — 13 September 1942
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 14 September 1942
- Anant Chaturdashi — 23 September 1942
- Pitru Paksha begins — 25 September 1942
- Sharad Navratri begins — 11 October 1942
- Maha Navami — 18 October 1942
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 18 October 1942
- Karwa Chauth — 27 October 1942
- Dhanteras — 6 November 1942
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 7 November 1942
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 8 November 1942
- Govardhan Puja — 9 November 1942
- Bhai Dooj — 10 November 1942
- Chhath Puja — 13 November 1942
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 22 November 1942
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 22 November 1942
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