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📅 When is Bhagavān Nārada Jayantī?

YearDateDay
20252025-05-13Tuesday
2026 (this year)2026-05-02Saturday
20272027-05-21Friday
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)

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 16,
  "tithi_paksha": "Kṛṣṇa",
  "lunar_month": "Vaiśākha",
  "lunar_month_system": "amanta"
}

Sources

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-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 witnessesBhāgavata Purāṇa 1.5-6 (Nārada-Vyāsa-saṁvāda) · Nārada-Bhakti-Sūtra