🪷 भगवान् नारद जयन्ती · Bhagavān Nārada Jayantī
📅 When is Bhagavān Nārada Jayantī?
Manifestation of Devarṣi Nārada — ādi-bhakta and tri-loka-saṅcāri who instructed Vyāsa to compose Śrīmad Bhāgavata. Without Nārada, no Bhāgavata; without Bhāgavata, no Krishna-tattva-pratiṣṭhā in Kali Yuga. Falls on Vaiśākha Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā (day after Buddha Pūrṇimā).
Associated deity: Devarṣi Nārada (ādi-bhakta · Vyāsa's guru)
Tradition
Tradition: Vaishnava
Vrata: Yes (fasting day)
Primary observance: Recitation of Nārada-Bhakti-Sūtra; meditation on Krishna as taught by Nārada to Vyāsa (Bhāgavata 1.5)
How the day is decided
The Kṛṣṇa Pratipad at sunrise (the tithi at sunrise is whole for the day's rites); when it holds at two sunrises, the second day (the tithi's chapter); touching no sunrise, the day it runs.
Source: Dharmasindhu, tithi-nirṇaya (OCR 1158-1166 yugma, 1351-1790 by tithi). 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": 16,
"tithi_paksha": "Kṛṣṇa",
"lunar_month": "Vaiśākha",
"lunar_month_system": "amanta"
}Sources
- Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.5-6 (Nārada-Vyāsa-saṁvāda)
- Nārada-Bhakti-Sūtra
Precedence: 1 (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.
Bhagavān Nārada Jayantīlocal festival mūrti-page · Vaishnava/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceBhagavān Nārada Jayantī computed on Tuesday, 2025-05-132026 occurrenceBhagavān Nārada Jayantī computed on Saturday, 2026-05-022027 occurrenceBhagavān Nārada Jayantī computed on Friday, 2027-05-21ŚB 1.5local Bhāgavata route mirrored from festival source text: Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.5-6 (Nārada-Vyāsa-saṁvāda)BG 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 witnessesBhāgavata Purāṇa 1.5-6 (Nārada-Vyāsa-saṁvāda) · Nārada-Bhakti-Sūtra