🪷 राधाष्टमी · Rādhāṣṭamī

📅 When is Rādhāṣṭamī?

YearDateDay
20252025-08-31Sunday
2026 (this year)2026-09-19Saturday
20272027-09-08Wednesday
Manifestation of Śrī Rādhā at Barsānā — Krishna's ādi-śakti.
Associated deity: Śrī Rādhā (Krishna's hlādinī-śakti)

Tradition

Tradition: Vaishnava

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

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

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.

Rādhāṣṭamīlocal festival mūrti-page · Vaishnava/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceRādhāṣṭamī computed on Sunday, 2025-08-312026 occurrenceRādhāṣṭamī computed on Saturday, 2026-09-192027 occurrenceRādhāṣṭamī computed on Wednesday, 2027-09-08BG 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 witnessesPadma Purāṇa · Brahma-Vaivarta Purāṇa