🪷 शरद पूर्णिमा · Śarad Pūrṇimā / Kojāgarī Pūrṇimā

📅 When is Śarad Pūrṇimā / Kojāgarī Pūrṇimā?

YearDateDay
20252025-10-06Monday
2026 (this year)2026-10-25Sunday
20272027-10-14Thursday
Krishna's Mahā-rāsa with the gopīs at Vṛndāvana. Lakṣmī wakes ("ko jāgartti?")
Associated deity: Krishna + Lakṣmī

Tradition

Tradition: Vaishnava

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

Primary observance: Night-long jāgaraṇa; offering of pāyasa under moonlight

How the day is decided

Pūrṇimā at niśītha: on the first day only, the first; on the second only, on both, or on neither, the second.

Source: Dharmasindhu, Kojāgara-vrata (OCR 5390-5392). 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": 15,
  "tithi_paksha": "Śukla",
  "lunar_month": "Āśvina",
  "kala_rule": "kojagari"
}

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.

Śarad Pūrṇimā / Kojāgarī Pūrṇimālocal festival mūrti-page · Vaishnava/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceŚarad Pūrṇimā / Kojāgarī Pūrṇimā computed on Monday, 2025-10-062026 occurrenceŚarad Pūrṇimā / Kojāgarī Pūrṇimā computed on Sunday, 2026-10-252027 occurrenceŚarad Pūrṇimā / Kojāgarī Pūrṇimā computed on Thursday, 2027-10-14ŚB 10.29local Bhāgavata route mirrored from festival source text: Bhāgavata 10.29-33BG 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 10.29-33