Krishna Janmashtami 2025 கிருஷ்ண ஜெயந்தி

The day in the Tamil calendar

Timings for Chennai. The date follows the Tamil Nadu calendar.

About the festival

Krishna Jayanthi, also called Gokulashtami or Janmashtami, celebrates the birth of Krishna, who is revered as an avatar of Vishnu.^1,2

Many devotees fast, and worship is centred on midnight, the traditional hour of Krishna's birth, when an image of the infant Krishna is bathed, dressed and worshipped, followed by singing and sweets.^2,3

In Tamil homes, small footprints of the infant Krishna are drawn with rice-flour paste from the threshold to the family shrine, representing his arrival into the house.^2,4

When it falls: Krishna Jayanthi falls on Ashtami, the eighth day of the dark fortnight (Krishna Ashtami) of the lunar month Shravana in the amanta reckoning (Bhadrapada in the purnimanta reckoning), in August or September.^1,2

Sources

1. britannica.com
2. Wikipedia: Krishna Janmashtami
3. britannica.com
4. chantal-jumel-kolam-kalam.com

Krishna Janmashtami in other years