Janmashtami
janmāṣṭamīThe festival of Krishna's midnight birth, on the eighth of the dark fortnight of Bhadrapada.
Where this term appears
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
Janmashtami is the eighth tithi of the dark fortnight of Bhadrapada , and the strongest reckonings also want the moon in the nakshatra Rohini , the star under which Krishna was born.
- The Monsoon and the Midnight Birth Treatise
This is what Janmashtami keeps, and it keeps it by the clock of the story.