Mahashivratri 2008

[devisarada]

Pranam,

Does anyone know where I can get the timings for Mahashivratri around the world in 2008?

Thanks,

[zara]

and can anyone tell me about Mahashivratri in details i will really appriciate it
regards
zara

[devisarada]

Pranam,

I found a website that has the timings for India, here is the link:

http://www.shaivam.org/siddhanta/fessdate.html

Indian Standard Time:

Mahashivratri begins: 12:25 am March 5, 2008, ends March 7 at 10:44pm

Eastern Standard Time Toronto:

begins at 1:55 pm on March 5, ends on March 7 at 12:15 pm

[devisarada]

Pranam,

Here is a website dedidicated to Shivratri:http://www.mahashivratri.org/

[Agnideva]

Does anyone know where I can get the timings for Mahashivratri around the world in 2008?

Namaste Devi,

You can get the dates on MyPanchang.com for many major cities around the world.

Mahashivaratri this year will be March 6 in India (midnight between Mar 6 and Mar 7) and March 5 in North America (midnight between Mar 5 and Mar 6). When it is celebrated in a given temple depends on whether they celebrate specifically according to their time zone or not.

Aum Namah Shivaya.

[Agnideva]

Namaste Zara,

Also check the previous Maha Shivaratri thread. There's some information there as well.

Aum.

[vinayak.gokhale]

Namaste Devi,

You can get the dates on MyPanchang.com for many major cities around the world.

Mahashivaratri this year will be March 6 in India (midnight between Mar 6 and Mar 7) and March 5 in North America (midnight between Mar 5 and Mar 6). When it is celebrated in a given temple depends on whether they celebrate specifically according to their time zone or not.

Aum Namah Shivaya.

I totally agree with you Agnidevaji. I am from seattle, and the hindu temple in bothell www.htccwa.org is celebrating on March 5th as per the site you just mentioned, and there is another temple in maple valley area called Sanatan Dharma Temple ( www.sdtccwa.org ) is celebrating as per India's Time ( March 6th ). The thing that is confusing is that they also claim on their website that their festivals are calculated as per seattle's longitudes and latitudes.... too much confusion created by temples........

[Agnideva]

I totally agree with you Agnidevaji. I am from seattle, and the hindu temple in bothell www.htccwa.org is celebrating on March 5th as per the site you just mentioned, and there is another temple in maple valley area called Sanatan Dharma Temple ( www.sdtccwa.org ) is celebrating as per India's Time ( March 6th ). The thing that is confusing is that they also claim on their website that their festivals are calculated as per seattle's longitudes and latitudes.... too much confusion created by temples........

Namaste Vinayakji,

Yes, temples sometimes create unnecessary confusion about festivals. Many of the dates listed on the second site are clearly wrong for Seattle. The Hindu calendar is region specific and needs to be calculated based on local longitude and latitude. Simply going by dates of celebration in India makes no sense whatsoever.

[prashantkochar1]

Shivaratri is on march 6th.

see shivaratri dates here

[vinayak.gokhale]

Shivaratri is on march 6th.

see shivaratri dates here

Only if you are in India. When you observe the eclipse in america or europe do you observe based on Indian time there? Do you subtract the time difference to view eclipse? Same way standard time difference needs to be subtracted to arrive at tithi ending time in appropriate location you are and then rule for mahashivaratri, "Madhyaratri vyapini on chatrudashi" needs to be applied. If chaturdashi is visible previous day in the location you are at then it's previous day otherwise the next day. Please read detailed explanation at http://www.mypanchang.com

Thanks.