🪷 राम नवमी · Rāma Navamī
📅 When is Rāma Navamī?
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2025-04-06 | Sunday |
| 2026 (this year) | 2026-03-27 | Friday |
| 2027 | 2027-04-15 | Thursday |
- /rama — the constitutional non-dual singularity declaration · 10 sections · audience-aware
- /rama — devotional and primary-source orientation
- Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa — seven-kāṇḍa Sanskrit reading path; edition and address notes included
- Śrī Rāmcharitamānas — seven-kāṇḍa Awadhi reading path; completeness and edition notes included
- /avatara/rama — Daśāvatāra-7 deep-page · Maryādā-Puruṣottama doctrine
- /computational-moat — the technical-philosophical proof + 4-step reproducibility protocol
- Vālmīki Bāla-Kāṇḍa 1.18 — the janma textual passage
Tradition
Tradition: Vaishnava
Avatāra index: #18 of 22 (per Bhāgavata 1.3)
Vrata: Yes (fasting day)
Primary observance: Madhyāhna (noon) abhiṣekam in Ayodhyā tradition
How the day is decided
Navamī at madhyāhna: on the first day only, the first; touching madhyāhna on the second (even in part), or on neither, the second (aṣṭamī-viddhā is forbidden).
Source: Dharmasindhu, Rāmanavamī-nirṇaya (OCR 2452-2457); Nirṇayasindhu II. 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": 9,
"tithi_paksha": "Śukla",
"lunar_month": "Caitra",
"kala_rule": "rama-navami"
}Sources
- Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Bāla-Kāṇḍa 1.18
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output
Sources and Connected Observances
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