"I bathed the idol of baby Krishna and dressed it in a colourful attire and a gold-plated crown at midnight," said Sunil Patel, a resident of south Delhi's Defence Colony.
Markets did brisk business as people shopped for sweets, flowers, milk and curd to be offered at temples.
Youngsters took part in "matka phod" - a ritual breaking of earthenware pots filled with buttermilk - to celebrate the deity's love for butter and milk, which he often stole from overhanging pots by an ingenious method of building human pyramids.
Kolkata celebrated Janmashtami through idol worship, dance-dramas and "satsangs" (religious gatherings).
