Durga Ashtami 1993
Mahashtami — Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja of Navratri.
Muhurat & timings
Kashi/IST · astronomically computed- Sankalp (sunrise)05:59
- Sunset17:24
- Fasting window (tithi)02:06 → 1993-10-23 · 02:46
- Parana (tithi ends)02:461993-10-23
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 1993
- Makar Sankranti — 14 January 1993
- Vasant Panchami — 28 January 1993
- Maha Shivaratri — 19 February 1993
- Holika Dahan — 7 March 1993
- Holi — 9 March 1993
- Chaitra Navratri begins — 24 March 1993
- Ram Navami — 1 April 1993
- Akshaya Tritiya — 24 April 1993
- Jagannath Rath Yatra — 21 June 1993
- Guru Purnima — 4 July 1993
- Nag Panchami — 23 July 1993
- Raksha Bandhan — 2 August 1993
- Krishna Janmashtami — 9 September 1993
- Hartalika Teej — 18 September 1993
- Ganesh Chaturthi — 19 September 1993
- Anant Chaturdashi — 29 September 1993
- Pitru Paksha begins — 1 October 1993
- Sharad Navratri begins — 16 October 1993
- Maha Navami — 23 October 1993
- Dussehra / Vijayadashami — 24 October 1993
- Karwa Chauth — 3 November 1993
- Dhanteras — 11 November 1993
- Naraka Chaturdashi (Choti Diwali) — 13 November 1993
- Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) — 13 November 1993
- Govardhan Puja — 14 November 1993
- Bhai Dooj — 15 November 1993
- Chhath Puja — 19 November 1993
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali) — 29 November 1993
- Guru Nanak Jayanti — 29 November 1993
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