🪷 दत्त जयन्ती · Datta Jayantī
📅 When is Datta Jayantī?
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2025-12-04 | Thursday |
| 2026 (this year) | 2026-12-23 | Wednesday |
| 2027 | 2027-12-13 | Monday |
Tradition
Tradition: Pan-Hindu
Vrata: Yes (fasting day)
How the day is decided
Pūrṇimā in pradoṣa: on one day only, that day; on both or neither, by the tithi's chapter (the text gives no further rule).
Source: Dharmasindhu, Dattātreya-utpatti (OCR 6047). Computed on the Sūrya Siddhānta's sunrise, tithi and Moon at Ujjayinī (a city's page uses that city's sunrise).
Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)
{
"tithi_number": 15,
"tithi_paksha": "Śukla",
"lunar_month": "Mārgaśīrṣa",
"kala_rule": "datta-jayanti"
}Sources
- Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa
- Bhāgavata 4.1.15
Precedence: 2 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output
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.
Datta Jayantīlocal festival mūrti-page · Pan-Hindu/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceDatta Jayantī computed on Thursday, 2025-12-042026 occurrenceDatta Jayantī computed on Wednesday, 2026-12-232027 occurrenceDatta Jayantī computed on Monday, 2027-12-13ŚB 4.1.15local Bhāgavata route mirrored from festival source text: Bhāgavata 4.1.15BG 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-lokalagna and tithi calculation method, traditional interpretation, and scripture boundary/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundationtextual witnessesMārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa · Bhāgavata 4.1.15