Durga Ashtami 1949
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:49
- Sunset17:46
- Fasting window (tithi)1949-09-28 · 22:07 → 21:27
- Parana (tithi ends)21:27
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 1949
- Makar Sankranti — 13 January 1949
- Vasant Panchami — 3 February 1949
- Maha Shivaratri — 25 February 1949
- Holika Dahan — 14 March 1949
- Holi — 15 March 1949
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 30 March 1949
- Ram Navami — 7 April 1949
- Akshaya Tritiya — 1 May 1949
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 28 June 1949
- Guru Purnima — 10 July 1949
- Nag Panchami — 30 July 1949
- Raksha Bandhan — 8 August 1949
- Krishna Janmashtami — 16 August 1949
- Hartalika Teej — 26 August 1949
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 27 August 1949
- Anant Chaturdashi — 6 September 1949
- Pitru Paksha begins — 8 September 1949
- Sharad Navratri begins — 23 September 1949
- Maha Navami — 30 September 1949
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 1 October 1949
- Karwa Chauth — 10 October 1949
- Dhanteras — 19 October 1949
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 21 October 1949
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 21 October 1949
- Govardhan Puja — 22 October 1949
- Bhai Dooj — 23 October 1949
- Chhath Puja — 27 October 1949
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 5 November 1949
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 5 November 1949
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