Durga Ashtami 1946
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:51
- Sunset17:42
- Fasting window (tithi)02:13 → 1946-10-04 · 04:33
- Parana (tithi ends)04:331946-10-04
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 1946
- Makar Sankranti — 14 January 1946
- Vasant Panchami — 6 February 1946
- Maha Shivaratri — 2 March 1946
- Holika Dahan — 17 March 1946
- Holi — 18 March 1946
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 3 April 1946
- Ram Navami — 10 April 1946
- Akshaya Tritiya — 3 May 1946
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 30 June 1946
- Guru Purnima — 14 July 1946
- Nag Panchami — 2 August 1946
- Raksha Bandhan — 12 August 1946
- Krishna Janmashtami — 19 August 1946
- Hartalika Teej — 29 August 1946
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 30 August 1946
- Anant Chaturdashi — 10 September 1946
- Pitru Paksha begins — 12 September 1946
- Sharad Navratri begins — 26 September 1946
- Maha Navami — 4 October 1946
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 5 October 1946
- Karwa Chauth — 13 October 1946
- Dhanteras — 22 October 1946
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 23 October 1946
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 24 October 1946
- Govardhan Puja — 25 October 1946
- Bhai Dooj — 27 October 1946
- Chhath Puja — 31 October 1946
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 9 November 1946
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 9 November 1946
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