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Sri Gaurabda 529
Vaisnava Calendar for year 2015-2016
13/3/15
16/3/15
17/3/15
25/3/15
28/3/15
29/3/15
31/3/15
01/4/15
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18/4/15
21/4/15
25/4/15
27/4/15
29/4/15
30/4/15
03/5/15
04/5/15
09/5/15
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EVENTS
Avirbhava: Sri Srivasa Pandita
Papamocani Ekadasi
Break fast after sunrise before 9:46 am.
Avirbhava: Sri Ramanujacarya
Sri Rama Navami (Appearance of Lord Ramacandra).
Fast till noon. Ekadasi preparations only.
Break fast after sunrise and before 9:40 am.
Fasting for Kamada Ekadasi.
Break fast after sunrise and before 9:38 am
Purnima. Rasa-yatra of Lord Balarama. Vasanta Rasa-yatra of Sri
Krsna.
Avirbhava: Srila Syamananda Prabhu and Vamsivadananda
Thakur.Lunar Eclipse: 3:45 pm to 7:15 pm
Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Kumud Santa Maharaja
Tirobhava: Sri Abhiram Thakur
Keshav Vrata begins. Tirobhava: Sri Vrindavan Das Thakur
Fasting for Varuthini Ekadasi
Break fast after sunrise and before 7:31 am
Avirbhava: Sri Gadadhara Pandit
Aksaya Tritiya, Candan-yatra of Lord Jagannatha begins.
Opening of the doors of Sri Badrinarayana Temple.
Anniversary day of Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti’s inauguration in
1941.
Janu Saptami, Jahnavi puja
Avirbhava: Sita devi (consort of Lord Rama) and Jahnava devi
(consort of Lord Nityananda). Tirobhava: Sri Madhu Pandit.
Fasting for Mohini Ekadasi.
Break fast after 8:26 am and before 9:27 am.
Appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva.
(fast till dusk. Ekadasi preparations only.)
Purnima. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:25 am.
Avirbhava: Srila Srinivas Acarya and Srila Madhavendra Puripad.
Tirobhava: Srila Paramesvari Thakur.
Tirobhava: Srila Raya Ramananda Prabhu
Fasting for Apara Ekadasi.
Break fast after sunrise and before 9:23 am.
End of Sri Keshav Vrata.
28/5/15
29/5/15
30/5/15
31/5/15
Avirbhava: Vrindavan das Thakur.
Ganga dasahara, Ganga puja.
Avirbhava: Sri Gangamata Gosvamini.
Tirobhava: Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana Prabhu.
Fasting for Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi.
Break fast after sunrise and before 9:19 am.
Dahi-cira festival of Srila Raghunath Das Gosvami.
02/6/15 Purnima. Snana-yatra of Lord Jagannatha.
Tirobhava: Srila Mukunda Datta and Srila Sridhara Pandit.
03/6/15 Tirobhava: Srila Syamananda Prabhu.
07/6/15 Avirbhava: Srila Vakreshwar Pandit.
11/6/15 Tirobhava: Srila Srivas Pandit.
13/6/15 Fasting for Yogini Ekadasi
14/6/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:24 am.
16/6/15 Tirobhava: Srila Gadadhar Pandit and Srila Saccidananda
Bhaktivinoda Thakur.
16/6/15 Sri Purusottama Vrata Begins. (7:13 p.m.)
28/6/15 Fasting for Padmini Ekadasi.
29/6/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:02 am.
02/7/15 Purnima
12/7/15 Fasting for Parama Ekadasi.
13/7/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 7:52 am.
16/7/15 End of Purusottama Vrata.
17/7/15 Cleaning of the Gundica Temple
18/7/15 Ratha-yatra of Lord Jagannatha.
Tirobhava: Srila Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Sri Sivananda
Sena
22/7/15 Hera Pancami. Sri Lakshmi Vijay.
26/7/15 Lord Jagannath’s return journey. End of Rath-yatra festival.
Tirobhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Kamal Madhusudan Goswami
Maharaja
27/7/15 Fasting for Sayana Ekadasi.
28/7/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:32 am
31/7/15 Sri Guru Purnima. Sri Vyasa-puja. Tirobhava: Srila Sanatana
Gosvami.
First month of Caturmasya vrata begins. (Fasting from all green
leafy vegetables.)
05/8/15 Tirobhava: Srila Gopal Bhatta Gosvami
07/8/15 Tirobhava: Srila Lokanatha Gosvami
10/8/15 Kamika Ekadasi
11/8/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:33 am
14/8/15 Tirobhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja
26/8/15 Fasting for Pavitraropani Ekadasi. Beginning of Sri Sri RadhaGovinda Jhulan-yatra.
27/8/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 6:28 am
Tirobhava: Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Gauridas pandit and Srila
Govinda das.
29/8/15 Sri Baladeva Purnima (appearance day of Lord Balarama).
Fast till noon. Ekadasi preparations only. End of Jhulan-yatra.
Raksha bandhan.
Second month of Caturmasya begins – fasting from yogurt for 1
month.
30/8/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:30 am.
06/9/15 Sri Krishna Janmastami – full fast till midnight.
Ekadasi preparations only
07/9/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 6:48 am. Sri Nanda-utsava.
Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja.
09/9/15 Fasting for Annada Ekadasi
10/9/15 Break fast after sunrise and before 6:49 am.
18/9/15
20/9/15
21/9/15
24/9/15
25/9/15
Avirbhava: Sri Sitadevi, consort of Sri Advaita Acarya.
Sri Lalita Saptami.
Sri Sri Radhastami. No fasting.
Fasting for Parsva Ekadasi and Vamana Dvadasi.
Break fast after sunrise and before 9:29 am.
Avirbhava: Srila Jiva Gosvami.
26/9/15 Avirbhava: Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakur.
27/9/15 Tirobhava: Srila Haridas Thakur. Ananta Caturdasi.
28/9/15 Purnima. Sri Visvarupa-Mahotsava. Sannyasa day of of nitya-lila
pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnan
Keshav Goswami Maharaj and nitya-lila pravista om visnupada
astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj. Third
month of Caturmasya begins – fasting from milk
Lunar eclipse (6:37-9:57 am)
03/10/15Tirobhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Sri-Rupa Siddhanti Gosvami
Maharaja.
08/10/15Fasting for Indira Ekadasi
09/10/15Break fast after sunrise and before 9:28 am.
17/10/15Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Pramod Puri Gosvami Maharaja
23/10/15Lord Sri Ramacandra Vijayotsava. Avirbhava: Sri Madhvacarya.
24/10/15Fasting for Pasankusa Ekadasi.
Tirobhava: Srila Raghunath das Gosvami, Srila Raghunath Bhatta
Gosvami and Srila Krishna das Kaviraj Gosvami.
25/10/15Break fast after sunrise and before 9:28 am.
27/10/15Purnima. Saradiya Rasa-yatra of Sri Krishna. Damodara Vrata,
Kartika Vrata, Urja Vrata, Niyam seva begins.
Tirobhava: Sri Murari Gupta and nitya-lila pravista om visnupada
astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktiprajnana Keshava Gosvami
Maharaja.
Last month of Caturmasya – Fasting from sesame seeds, mustard
seeds and mustard oil.
01/11/15Tirobhava: Srila Narottama Das Thakur
04/11/15Bahulashtami
Avirbhava: Sri Radha Kunda.
05/11/15Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Gosvami
Maharaja
07/11/15Rama Ekadasi
08/11/15Break fast after sunrise and before 9:30 am.
Tirobhava: Srila Narahari Sarkar Thakur
11/11/15Dipavali (ghee lamp offering in Sri Visnu Temples)
12/11/15Annakuta Mahotsava & Sri Govardhan Puja. Go-puja.
Avirbhava: Srila Rasikananda Prabhu.
13/11/15Yama dvitya. Bhaiya Dooj.
Tirobhava: Srila Vasudeva Ghosh.
14/11/15Tirobhava: nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri
Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and nitya-lila
pravista om visnupada astottara- sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta
Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja.
15/11/15Tirobhava: Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja.
16/11/15Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Srirup Siddhanti Gosvami Maharaj.
19/11/15Gopastami. Tirobhava: Srila Srinivasa Acarya, Srila Dhananjaya
Pandit and Srila Gadadhara Das Thakur.
22/11/15Fasting for Utthana Ekadasi. Bhisma-pancaka.
Tirobhava: Srila Gaurakisora das Babaji Maharaja.
23/11/15Break fast after sunrise and before 9:36 am.
25/11/15Purnima. Tirobhava: Srila Bhugarbha Goswami, Srila Kasisvari
Pandit, and Sri Srimad Bhakti Pramod Puri Gosvami Maharaja.
End of Kartik vrata.
26/11/15Beginning of Sri Katyayani Vrata.
07/12/15Fasting for Utpanna Ekadasi.
Tirobhava: Narahari Sarkar Thakur
08/12/15Break fast after sunrise and before 9:43 am.
Tirobhava: Sri Kala Krsnadas
09/12/15Tirobhava: Sri Saranga Thakur
20/12/15Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhakti Kamal Madhusudan Maharaja
21/12/15Fasting for Moksada Ekadasi. Gita Jayanti
22/12/15Break fast after sunrise and before 9:50 am.
25/12/15Purnima. End of Sri Katyayani Vrata.
29/12/15Tirobhava: nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri
Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada
03/01/16Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami
Maharaja.
Tirobhava: nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri
Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
06/01/16Fasting for Vyanjuli mahadvadasi.
Tirobhava: Sri Devananda Pandit
07/01/16Break fast after sunrise and before 6:41 am.
08/01/16Tirobhava: Sri Mahesh Pandit and Sri Uddharan Thakur
11/01/16Avirbhava: Sri Locan das Thakur.
12/01/16Tirobhava: Srila Jiva Gosvami and Srila Jagadish Pandita
15/01/16Makar Sankranti, Ganga Sagar Snana
20/01/16Fasting for Putrada Ekadasi
21/01/16Break fast after sunrise and before 9:30 am
22/01/16Tirobhava: Bhakti Kumud Santa Maharaj
24/01/16Purnima. Krsna Pusya Abhiskek
29/01/16Avirbhava: Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami
Tirobhava: Srila Ramacandra Kaviraja
30/01/16Tirobhava: Srila Jayadev Gosvami
31/01/16Tirobhava: Srila Locana das Thakur
04/02/16Fasting for Sat-tila Ekadasi
05/02/16Break fast after sunrise and before 10:00 am.
Avirbhava: Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Trivikram Gosvami
Maharaja.
08/02/16Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata
Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja.
Sri Vyasapuja Mahotsava.
13/02/16Vasanta Pancami of Sri Krishna.
Avirbhava: Sri Visnupriya devi, Srila Raghunatha Das Gosvami,
Srila Raghunandan Thakur and Pundarik Vidyanidhi.
Tirobhava: Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur and Sri Srimad
Bhakti Vivek Bharti Gosvami Maharaja. Sri Saraswati Puja.
15/02/16Avirbhava: Maha-Vishnu Avatar Sri Advaita Acarya
Fast till noon. Ekadasi preparations only
16/02/16Breakfast after sunrise and before 9:59 am.
16/02/16Tirobhava: Sri Madhvacarya
17/02/16Tirobhava: Sri Ramanujacharya
18/02/16Bhaimi Ekadasi. Sri Varaha-dvadasi.
19/02/16Breakfast after sunrise and before 09:58 am.
20/02/16Avirbhava: Lord Sri Nityananda
21/02/16Break fast after sunrise and before 9:57 am
22/2/16 Purnima. Avirbhava: Narottam das Thakur
25/2/16 Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata
Sri Srimad Bhaktiprajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaj.
27/2/16 Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata
Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur
Prabhupada.
Tirobhava: Gaur Govinda Maharaja
05/3/16 Vijaya Ekadasi
06/3/16 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:53 am
08/3/16 Sri Siva-ratri vrata (Ekadasi preparations only).
09/3/16 Break fast after sunrise and before 8:00 am.
Tirobhava: Srila Rasikananda Prabhu, Srila Jagannatha Das
Babaji Maharaja
Solar Eclipse – 4:49 pm – 10:05 pm
19/3/16 Amalaki Ekadasi
20/3/16 Break fast after sunrise and before 9:46 am.
Tirobhava: Srila Madhavendra Puri
23/3/16 Sri Gaura Purnima – fast till moonrise. (paran next day after
sunrise and before 9:44 am)