Gaudiya Festival Dates

The following is a set of calendars of Gaudiya Vaisnava festival dates for the international community of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math headquartered in Sri Nabadwip Dham. The calendars have been calculated on the basis of Sri Hari-bhakti-vilasa according to the directions of Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj.

All the dates and times listed in the calendars are calculated for Kolkata, India, as this is the traditional basis for the calendar calculations observed at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math in Sri Nabadwip Dham. The only exception to this is the calculations for the observance of Sri Hari-vasara (“Ekadashi”) throughout the year at other locations. These dates are calculated according local astrological conditions and then combined with the dates of all other events on the calendar as observed in Sri Nabadwip Dham to form the unique calendar for each location. It was Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj preference that the calendars be prepared in this way so that the days of the appearance, disappearance, and other Pastimes of the Lord and His devotees would be observed on the same day that they took place in India and not on a day before that as can often occur if location astrological conditions are used as the basis of calculation.

The calendars begin from the Anandotsav of Sri Jagannath Mishra and end with Sri Gaura Purnima. These events almost always occur in March of each Gregorian year.

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