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Vaishnava Calendar 2012-2013 Sri Gaurabda 526

In accordance with the vaisnava smriti, Sri Hari Bhaktivilasa & based on Visuddha Sarasvat-Keshav Sri Caitanya Panjika
(Calculated according to the Surya Siddhanta for Mathura-Vrindavan 27` 30N, 77`41E)

Edited by Sripad BV Madhav Maharaja & Sripad Premananda Prabhu Under the instructions & directions of

nitya-lila pravista om visnupada

Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja

Month of Chaitra
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. Shu. 08 15 11 18 12 19 30 22 05 27 Mar Mar Mar Mar Mar Thu Sun Mon Thu Tue

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Appearance day of Srila Srivasa Pandita. Fasting for Papamocani Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise before 9:45 am. Amavasya. Appearance day of Sri Ramanujacarya.

Shu.

09 1

Apr

Sun Sri Ram Navami (Appearance of Lord Ramacandra). Fast till noon. Ekadasi preparations only.

Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu.

10 2 11 3 12 4 14 6

Apr Apr Apr Apr

Mon

Break fast after sunrise and before 8:20 am.

Tue Fasting for Kamada Ekadasi. Wed Break fast after sunrise and before 6:40 am. Fri Purnima. Rasa-yatra of Lord Balarama. Vasanta Rasa-yatra of Sri Krsna. Appearance of Srila Syamananda Prabhu.

Month of Vaishakha
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 07 13 Apr Fri

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Sri Keshav-vrata begins. (giving stream of water to Tulasi throughout the month.)

Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. Shu.

10 16 11 17 12 18 30 21 03 24

Apr Apr Apr Apr Apr

Mon Tue Wed Sat Tue

Disappearance day of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur. Fasting for Varuthini Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 7:17 am. Amavasya. 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.

Shu.

09 30

Apr

Mon

Appearance day of Sita devi, consort of Lord Rama. and Jahnava devi, consort of Lord Nityananda. Disappearance day of Srila Madhu Pandit.

Shu. Shu. Shu.

11 02 12 03 14 05

May Wed May Thu May Sat

Fasting for Mohini Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:24 am. Appearance day of Lord Nrisimhadeva. (fast till dusk. Ekadasi preparations only.)

Shu.

15 06

May Sun

Purnima. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:24 am. Appearance day of Srila Srinivas Acarya and Srila Madhavendra Puripad. Diasappearance day of Srila Paramesvari Thakur.

Month of Jyestha
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. 05 09 11 12 30 10 14 16 17 20 May May May May May Thu

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Disappearance day of Srila Raya Ramananda Prabhu.

Mon End of Sri Keshav Vrata. Wed Fasting for Apara Ekadasi. Thu Sun Break fast after sunrise and before 9:20 am. Amavasya. Appearance day of Srila Gadadhara Pandit. Partial solar eclipse (only visible in east India).

Shu

09 +10

30

May

Wed

Ganga dasahara, Ganga puja. Appearance day of Sri Gangamata Gosvamini. Disappearance day of Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana Prabhu.

Shu Shu

12 13

01 02

Jun Jun

Fri Sat

Fasting for Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:20 am. Dahi-cira festival of Srila Raghunath Das Gosvami.

Shu

15

04

Jun

Mon Purnima. Snana-yatra of Lord Jagannatha. Disappearance day of Srila Mukunda Datta and Srila Sridhara Pandit. Partial lunar eclipse. (not visible in India)

Month of Ashadha
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. 02 05 10 11 12 30 05 09 14 15 16 19 Jun Jun Jun Jun Jun Jun Tue Sat Thu Fri Sat Tue

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Disappearance day of Srila Syamananda Prabhu. Appearance day of Srila Vakreshwar Pandit. Disappearance day of Srila Srivas Pandit. Fasting for Yogini Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:23 am. Amavasya. Disappearance day of Srila Gadadhar Pandit and Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakur.

Shu. 01 Shu. 02

20 21

Jun Jun

Wed Thu

Cleaning of the Gundica Temple. Ratha-yatra of Lord Jagannatha. Disappearance day of Srila Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Sri Sivananda Sena .

Shu. 06 Shu. 10

25 29

Jun Jun

Mon Fri

Hera Pancami. Sri Lakshmi Vijay. Lord Jagannaths return journey. End of Rath- yatra festival. Disappearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Kamal Madhusudan Goswami Maharaja.

Shu. Shu. Shu.

11 30 12 01 15 03

Jun Jul Jul

Sat Sun Tue

Fasting for Sayana Ekadasi. (Sri Hari Sayana) Break fast after sunrise and before 6:55 am. Sri Guru Purnima. Sri Vyasa-puja. Disappearance day of Srila Sanatana Gosvami. First month of Caturmasya vrata begins. (Fasting from all green leafy vegetables.)

Month of Sravan
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 01 04 Jul Wed

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Disappearance day of Srila Prabhodhananda Sarasvati Gosvami.

Kr. Kr. Kr.

05 08 11

08 11 14

Jul Jul Jul

Sun Wed Sat

Disappearance day of Srila Gopal Bhatta Gosvami. Disappearance day of Srila Lokanatha Gosvami. Kamika Ekadasi. (No Mahadvadasi vrata for Mathura/Vrndavan
because dvadasi tithi does not cross the sunrise time on 15 July.)

Kr. Kr.

12 30

15 19

Jul Jul

Sun Thu

Break fast after 9:02 and before 9:29 am. Amavasya. Disappearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja.

Shu. 11

29

Jul

Sun

Fasting for Pavitraropani Ekadasi. Beginning of Sri Sri Radha-Govinda Jhulan-yatra.

Shu. 12

30

Jul

Mon

Break fast after sunrise and before 9:31 am. Disappearance day of Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Gauridas pandit and Srila Govinda das.

Shu.

15 02

Aug

Thu 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.

Month of Bhadhra & Month of Purushottama

Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. Kr. 01 08 03 10 Aug Aug Fri Fri

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Break fast after sunrise and before 7:00 am. Sri Krishna Janmastami full fast till midnight. Ekadasi preparations only.

Kr.

09

11

Aug

Sat

Break fast after sunrise and before 9:31am. Sri Nanda-utsava. Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja.

Kr. Kr. Kr. Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu. Kr. Kr. Kr.

11 13 12 14 30 17 01 18 11 12 15 27 28 31

Aug Aug Aug Aug

Mon Tue Fri Sat

Fasting for Annada Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:30 am. Amavasya. Sri Purusottam month begins from 8:50 pm. Beginning of Purusottam vrata. Fasting for Kamada Ekadasi (name according to Padma Purana) Break fast after sunrise and before 9:27 am. Purnima. Fasting for Kamala Ekadasi (name according to Padma Purana) Break fast after sunrise before 9:30 am. Amavasya. Sri Purusottam Vrata ends after 7:45 am.

Aug Mon Aug Aug Sep Sep Sep Tue Fri Wed Thu Sun

11 12 12 13 30 16

Month of Bhadhra
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu. 01 05 07 08 11 12 17 20 22 23 26 27 Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Mon Thu Sat Sun Wed Thu

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Appearance day of Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja.
Appearance day of Sri Sitadevi, consort of Sri Advaita Acarya.

Sri Lalita Saptami (appearance day of Sri Lalita Devi). Sri Sri Radhastami. No fasting. Fasting for Parsva Ekadasi. Break fast after the arcan of Sri Vamanadeva and after sunrise before 8:15 am. Sri Vamana-dvadasi. (appearance of Lord Vamanadeva) - no fasting, because fast for Sri Vamana-dvadasi was done on Parsva Ekadasi. Appearance of Srila Jiva Gosvami.

Shu. Shu. Shu.

13 28 14 29 15 30

Sep Sep Sep

Fri Sat Sun

Appearance day of Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakur.

Disappearance day of Srila Haridas Thakur. 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.

Month of Ashavin
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 06 06 Oct Sat

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Disappearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Sri-Rupa Siddhanti Gosvami Maharaja.

Kr. Kr. Kr. Shu.

11 11 12 12 30 15 04 19

Oct Oct Oct Oct

Thu Fri Mon Fri

Fasting for Indira Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:27 am. Amavasya. Appearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Pramod Puri Gosvami Maharaja.

Shu.

10 24

Oct

Wed Lord Sri Ramacandra Vijayotsava. Appearance day of Sri Madhvacarya.

Shu. Shu.

11 25 12 26

Oct Oct

Thu Fri

Fasting for Papankusa Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:28 am. Disappearance day of Srila Raghunath das Goswami, Srila Raghunath Bhatta Goswami and Srila Krishna das Kaviraj Goswami.

Shu.

15 29

Oct

Mon Purnima. Saradiya Rasa-yatra of Sri Krishna. Damodara Vrata, Kartika Vrata, Urja Vrata, Niyam seva begins. Disappearance day of Srila Murari Gupta. Disappearance day of 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.

Month of Kartika
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 05 04 Nov Sun

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Disappearance day of Srila Narottama Das Thakur and Sri Srimad Bhakti Kushal Narasingha Maharaja.

Kr. Kr.

08 09

07 08

Nov Nov

Wed Thu

Bahulashtami, Appearance day of Sri Radha Kunda. Appearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja.

Kr. Kr.

11 12

10 11

Nov Nov

Sat Sun

Fasting for Rama Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:30 am. Disappearance day of Srila Narahari Sarkar Thakur.

Kr.

30

13

Nov

Tue

Amavasya. Dipavali, ghee lamp offering in Sri Visnu temple. Full solar eclipse. (not visible in India)

10

Month of Kartika
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Shu Shu Shu 01 02 03 14 15 16 Nov Nov Nov Wed Thu Fri

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Annakuta Mahotsav & Sri Govardhan Puja. Go-puja. Appearance day of Srila Rasikananda Prabhu. Yama dvitya. Bhaiya Dooj. Appearance day of Srila Vasudeva Ghosh. Disappearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottarasata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja.

Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu

04 05 08 11 12 14

17 18 21 24 25 27

Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov

Sat Disappearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja. Sun Appearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Srirup Siddhanti Gosvami Maharaj. Wed Gopastami. Disappearance day of Srila Srinivasa Acarya, Srila Dhananjaya Pandit and Srila Gadadhara Das Thakur. Sat Sun Tue Fasting for Utthana Ekadasi. Bhisma-pancaka.
Disappearance day of Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji Maharaja.

Break fast after sunrise and before 9:27 am. Disappearance day of Srila Bhugarbha Goswami, Srila Kasiswari Pandit, and Sri Srimad
Bhakti Pramod Puri Gosvami Maharaja.

Shu

15 28

Nov Wed

Purnima. Rasa-yatra of Sri Krishna. End of Caturmasya,

Damodara Vrata, Kartika Vrata and Urja Vrata.

11

Month of Margashirsh
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. 01 11 12 30 29 09 10 13 16 Nov Dec Dec Dec Dec Thu Sun Mon Thu Sun

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2012

Festivals / Vrats
Beginning of Sri Katyayani Vrata. Fasting for Utpanna Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:35 am. Amavasya. Disappearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Jivan Janardan Gosvami Maharaja.

Shu. 03

Shu. 08

20

Dec

Thu

Appearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Jivan Janardan Gosvami Maharaja.

Shu. 12 Shu.

24

Dec Dec Dec

Mon Fasting for Vyanjuli Mahadvadashi. Tue Fri Break fast after sunrise and before 7:50 am. Purnima. End of Sri Katyayani Vrata.

13 25 28

Shu. 15

12

Month of Pausha
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 04 01 Jan Tue

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2013

Festivals / Vrats
Disappearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada.

Kr.

09

06

Jan

Sun

Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and Disappearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja.

Kr.

11

08

Jan

Tue

Fasting for Saphala Ekadasi. Disappearance day of Sri Devananda Pandit.

Kr. Kr.

12 30

09 11 14

Jan Jan Jan

Wed Fri

Break fast after sunrise and before 8:05 am. Amavasya.

Shu. 03

Mon Makar Sankranti, Ganga Sagar Snana. Disappearance day of Srila Jiva Gosvami.

Shu. Shu.

11 12

22 23

Jan Tue Jan Wed

Fasting for Putrada Ekadasi. Break fast after 8:25 am and before 10:00 am. Disappearance day of Srila Jagadish Pandita.

Shu.

15

27

Jan

Sun

Purnima.

13

Month of Magha
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 03 30 Jan Wed

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2013

Festivals / Vrats
Appearance day of Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami. Disappearance day of Srila Ramacandra Kaviraja.

Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr.

05 06 09 11 12

01 02 04 06 07

Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb

Fri Sat Mon Wed Thu

Disappearance day of Srila Narahari Seva Vigraha Prabhu. Disappearance day of Srila Jayadev Gosvami. Disappearance day of Srila Locana das Thakur. Fasting for Sattila Ekadasi. Break fast after Sunrise and before 10:00 am. Appearance day of Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Trivikram Gosvami Maharaja.

Kr.

30 10

Feb

Sun

Mauni Amavasya. 92nd Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. Sri Vyasapuja Mahotsava.

14

Month of Magha
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Shu. 05 15 Feb Fri

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2013

Festivals / Vrats
Vasanta Pancami of Sri Krishna. Appearance day of Sri Visnupriya devi, Srila Raghunatha Das Gosvami and Srila Raghunandan Thakur. Disappearance day of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur and Sri Srimad Bhakti Vivek Bharti Gosvami Maharaja. Sri Saraswati Puja.

Shu.

07

17

Feb

Sun Appearance day of Maha-Vishnu Avatar Sri Advaita Acarya Fast till noon. Ekadasi preparations only.

Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu. Shu.

08 18 09 19 10 20 11 21

Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb

Mon Tue

Breakfast after sunrise and before 9:50 am. Disappearance day of Sri Madhvacarya.

Wed Disappearance day of Sri Ramanujacharya. Thu Fri Fasting for Jaya Ekadasi. Breakfast after arcan of Sri Varahadeva and after sunrise before 9:50am. Sri Varaha-dvadasi. No fasting, because fast for Sri Varaha-dvadasi was done on Jaya Ekadasi.

12 22

Shu.

13 23

Feb

Sat

Appearance day of Lord Sri Nityananda. Fast till noon. Ekadasi preparations only.

Shu. Shu.

14 24 15 25

Feb Feb

Sun Mon

Break fast after sunrise and before 9:50 am. Purnima.

15

Month of Phalguna
Paksha Tithi Date Month Day Kr. 03 28 Feb Thu

Sri Gaurabda 526 A.D. 2013

Festivals / Vrats
115th Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktiprajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaj.

Kr.

05 02

Mar

Sat

140th Appearance day of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada.

Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr.

06 03 13 14 30 09 10 11 12

Mar Mar Mar Mar Mar Mar

Sun Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue

Appearance day of Sri Srimad Bhaktisaranga Goswami Maharaja.

Kr. 11-13 08

Fasting for Tri-sparsha Mahadvadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:50 am Sri Siva-ratri vrata (Ekadasi preparations only). Amavasya. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:42 am. Disappearance day of Srila Rasikananda Prabhu, Srila Jagannatha Das Babaji Maharaja and Sri Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Goswami Maharaja.

Shu. 01

Shu. 09 Shu. 11 Shu. 12 Shu. 15

21 23 24 27

Mar Mar Mar Mar

Thu Sat Sun

Accepting vow for Sridhama Navadvipa Parikrama. (parikrama from 22nd to 26th March) Fasting for Amalaki Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:44 am. Disappearance day of Srila Madhavendra Puripad.

Wed Sri Gaura Purnima fast till moonrise. Ekadasi preparations only. Holi.

End of Sri Gaurabda 526

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Month of Chaitra
Moonphase Kr.

Sri Gaurabda 527 A.D. 2013

Date Month DAY

Mar Thu

FESTIVALS / VRATS
Break fast after sunrise and before 9:40 am. Festival of Sri Jagannatha Misra.

01 28

Kr. Kr. Kr. Kr.

08 03 11 06 12 07 30 10

Apr Apr Apr Apr

Wed Sat Sun Wed

Appearance day of Srila Srivasa Pandit. Fasting for Papamocani Ekadasi. Break fast after sunrise and before 9:30 am. Amavasya.

17

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