Janmashtami - Sri Krishna Jayanti
Submitted by Lata on Mon, 2009-08-10 15:47
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Are all of you celebrating Krishna Jayanthi on the 14th? Here, in the U.S, we tend to have some kind of a confusion with the dates, most of the time, and end up calling home around the approximate festival dates, to get a confirmed response. 
ashanagendra
Mon, 2009-08-10 20:51
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Here in India some celebrate on `14th august ,&we celebrate on 12th September .we do when they celebrate in parthasarathy temple and tirupati.
Lata
Mon, 2009-08-10 20:55
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Asha, thank you for writing your comment here. When you say you celebrate it on 12th September, do you mean your family celebrates it on the 12th, or does it mean that all Kannadigas celebrate it on the 12th. There is almost a month's gap between the two dates. Any special reason?
(You are from Karnataka, aren't you, unless I'm mistaken)
ashanagendra
Mon, 2009-08-10 21:18
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My father-in-law is basically from chennai and we follow their tradition and festivals .
we speak telugu at home and my mother and father both are from bangalore .my mother celebrates gokulastami& we celebrate Srijayanthi the thithi should be astami and the star should be rohini on that day:)
Lata, me and my husband are telugu speaking.
Lata
Mon, 2009-08-10 21:23
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Oops, sorry, my mistake! But, looks like everyone from your family is well versed in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu!
Thank you for telling me Asha.
jayamohan
Mon, 2009-08-10 21:39
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Since 13th August has been declared as holiday for Gokulashtami/Krishna Jayanthi, we celebrate it that evening!
The day has only 'ashtami' thithi!
Those who follow 'panchathraya' calendar, it is on Sep.12th!
Lata
Tue, 2009-08-11 22:32
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We look forward to making the "padam" kolams for this occasion. The people walking by my house sometimes stare at the white footprints the next day.
sowmyarajesh
Thu, 2009-08-13 07:50
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We usually follow the bridgewater temple calender here. we al;so refer to the Himalayaacademy 's panchangam. They give panchangam for many locations based on their lattitude and longitude. it is very good. It was referred to me by our uncle who is one of the founder of the SIva Vishnu Temple, DC. Here is the link to the Edision,NJ Calender
https://www.himalayanacademy.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi?func=download.showPage&file=/resources/panchangam/2009-2010/usa/edison_nj.pdf
The Krishna Jayanthy is today (14th)
Sumathi.v
Thu, 2009-08-13 08:30
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Happy Krishna Jayanthi to all. I usually celebrate the festival whenever the school gives a holiday for us so that the children can partcipate along with us in the Poooja
viji_j86
Wed, 2009-08-26 03:07
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Here at K.K. Nagar we celebarated Krishnajayanthi by Our Balagogoulam in a very very grand manner.
A procession was started from mCPWD qrts. K.K. Nagar. 5 Nos vans were decorated like Guresektra(Real horse was used) The Arjuna and Krishna sit in that van.(it is not look like a van but real theer).Another one is narashimha the real palace courtyard and Narshima and hiryankasshipu(Piti he was all along laying down on the decorared bench)
Birndavan with stupped animaas and real Radha and Krishna(All the way long both were chating I dontknow what)4th one very very beautiful radham where Krishnas idle is decorated with flowers and seials lights. In 5th one 40 Nos of little Krishna and Radha were sitting. The procession taken around the K.K. Nagar and end with CPWD There was singarimelam, Nashawaram, Tharai and thappatai(Really nice i enjoyed the tharai and thappatai and felt like dancing)Fired crackers also like deepavali. it was very nice.
viji