🪷 राम नवमी · Rāma Navamī

📅 When is Rāma Navamī?

YearDateDay
20252025-04-06Sunday
2026 (this year)2026-03-27Friday
20272027-04-15Thursday
Bhagavān Rāma's birth at Ayodhyā. Sūryavaṃśa's most exalted moment.
Associated deity: Rāma (18th avatāra of Krishna)
🪷 Rāma-Navamī · Living Festival and Source Tradition
Rāma-Navamī (Caitra Śukla Navamī) is annually observed in honor of Bhagavān Śrī Rāma's janma. The Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa and Śrī Rāmcharitamānas preserve the textual and bhakti pathways. Vidhyamitra presents the living observance without assigning an exact ancient civil date or verified natal chart.

Tradition

Tradition: Vaishnava

Avatāra index: #18 of 22 (per Bhāgavata 1.3)

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

Primary observance: Madhyāhna (noon) abhiṣekam in Ayodhyā tradition

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 9,
  "tithi_paksha": "Śukla",
  "lunar_month": "Caitra"
}

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.

Rāma Navamīlocal festival mūrti-page · Vaishnava/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceRāma Navamī computed on Sunday, 2025-04-062026 occurrenceRāma Navamī computed on Friday, 2026-03-272027 occurrenceRāma Navamī computed on Thursday, 2027-04-15Vālmīki Bāla-Kāṇḍalocal Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa route mirrored from festival source text: Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Bāla-Kāṇḍa 1.18BG 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 witnessesVālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Bāla-Kāṇḍa 1.18