Durga Ashtami 1944
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:48
- Sunset17:50
- Fasting window (tithi)05:42 → 1944-09-26 · 05:22
- Parana (tithi ends)05:221944-09-26
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 1944
- Makar Sankranti — 14 January 1944
- Vasant Panchami — 29 January 1944
- Maha Shivaratri — 22 February 1944
- Holika Dahan — 9 March 1944
- Holi — 10 March 1944
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 25 March 1944
- Ram Navami — 1 April 1944
- Akshaya Tritiya — 25 April 1944
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 22 June 1944
- Guru Purnima — 6 July 1944
- Nag Panchami — 25 July 1944
- Raksha Bandhan — 4 August 1944
- Krishna Janmashtami — 10 August 1944
- Hartalika Teej — 22 August 1944
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 22 August 1944
- Anant Chaturdashi — 1 September 1944
- Pitru Paksha begins — 3 September 1944
- Sharad Navratri begins — 18 September 1944
- Maha Navami — 26 September 1944
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 27 September 1944
- Karwa Chauth — 5 October 1944
- Dhanteras — 14 October 1944
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 16 October 1944
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 16 October 1944
- Govardhan Puja — 18 October 1944
- Bhai Dooj — 19 October 1944
- Chhath Puja — 23 October 1944
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 31 October 1944
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 31 October 1944
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