🪷 भीष्माष्टमी · Bhīṣmāṣṭamī

📅 When is Bhīṣmāṣṭamī?

YearDateDay
20252025-02-05Wednesday
2026 (this year)2026-01-26Monday
20272027-02-14Sunday
Bhīṣma's mahaprasthāna anniversary (Māgha Śukla 8); Bhīṣma-tarpaṇa.
Associated deity: Bhīṣma Pitāmaha

Tradition

Tradition: Pan-Hindu

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 8,
  "tithi_paksha": "Śukla",
  "lunar_month": "Māgha"
}

Sources

Precedence: 2 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output

Sources and Connected Observances

Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.

Bhīṣmāṣṭamīlocal festival mūrti-page · Pan-Hindu/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceBhīṣmāṣṭamī computed on Wednesday, 2025-02-052026 occurrenceBhīṣmāṣṭamī computed on Monday, 2026-01-262027 occurrenceBhīṣmāṣṭamī computed on Sunday, 2027-02-14Mahābhārata Anuśāsana-Parvalocal Mahābhārata route mirrored from festival source text: Mahābhārata, Anuśāsana ParvaBG 10.35Krishna as Mārgaśīrṣa among months and kusumākara among seasonsBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckoners/jyotisha-referencetithi, nakshatra, vāra, and pañchāṅga element source layer/cosmic-timekalpa, manvantara, yuga, and annual-cycle time context/lagna-tithi-lokaMātṛ-Vidyā source layer for tithi, loka, and reader-local kṣetra/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundationtextual witnessesMahābhārata, Anuśāsana Parva