Śrī Gaurābda 531 — 2016–2017 Śrī Gauḍīya Festival Dates Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh March 2016 July 2016 viṣṇu 1. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Yoginī Ekādaśī. Fast. 24. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Pratipad. Śrī Gaura Pūrṇimā pāraṇ between 5:42 and 9:37 a.m. 2. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Trayodaśī. Pāraṇ between 4:56 and 9:26 a.m. Ānandotsav of Śrī Jagannāth Miśra. Last gathering of the week-long yearly meeting 4. (Mon) Amāvasyā. Disappearance of Śrīla Gadādhar Paṇḍit and Śrīla Sachchidānanda at Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh and yearly festival. Start of year 530 Gaurābda. Bhakti Vinod Ṭhākur. 28. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. Festival at the appearance place of Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak 5. (Tue) Gaura Pratipad. Guṇḍichā Mārjan: cleaning at the Guṇḍichā Temple at Śrī Purī Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj, Śrīpāṭ Hapaniya: grand appearance of the holy dei- Dhām and cleaning of all Temples of the Lord. ties of Śrīpāṭ Hapaniya, Śrī Śrī Guru Gaurāṅga Rādhā Gopīnāth Jīu at Śrī Chaitanya 6. (Wed) Gaura Dvitīyā. Ratha Yātrā of Śrī Jagannāthdev. Disappearance of Śrīla Svarūp Sāraswat Ashram. Appearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Śaraṇ Śānta Mahārāj. Dāmodar Goswāmī Prabhu. Pañcham Dol. 9. (Sat) Gaura Pañchamī. Herā Pañchamī. Śrī Śrī Lakṣmī Vijay (observed the following 31. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī. Appearance of Śrīla Śrīvās Paṇḍit. day in Śrī Purī Dhām). April 2016 12. (Tue) Gaura Aṣṭamī. Disappearance of Śrīpād Ajita Kṛṣṇa Brahmachārī. 14. (Thu) Gaura Daśamī. Punar Yātrā of Śrī Jagannāthdev (Return car festival). 1. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Navamī. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Vigraha Bhikṣu Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Bhakti Kamal Madhusūdan Mahārāj. Disappearance Goswāmī Mahārāj. of Śrīyuktā Kṛṣṇamayī Devī. 3. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Pāpa Vimochanī Ekādaśī. Fast. 15. (Fri) Gaura Ekādaśī. Śayan Ekādaśī. Fast. Śrī Hari Śayan. 4. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:54 and 9:37 a.m. Festival in honour of Śrīman 16. (Sat) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 7:28 and 9:29 a.m. Mahāprabhu’s auspicious arrival at Varāha Nagar. Disappearance of Śrīla Govinda 19. (Tue) Śrī Guru Pūrṇimā. Appearance of Śrīla Vyāsadev. Disappearance of Śrīla Sanātan Ghoṣ Ṭhākur. Disappearance of Śrīpād Satyendrachandra Bhaṭṭāchārya Mahoday. Goswāmī Prabhu. Beginning of Chaturmāsya (when started on Pūrṇimā as followed 12. (Tue) Gaura Pañchamī. Appearance of Śrīpād Rāmānuja Āchārya and Tridaṇḍi Swāmī in Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh). Appearance of Śrīla Bhakti Bimal Avadhūt Mahārāj. Śrīmad Bhakti Hṛday Bon Mahārāj. 13. (Wed) Gaura Saptamī. Appearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Vilās Tīrtha śrīdhar Mahārāj. 21. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Dvitīyā. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Hṛday Bon 15. (Fri) Gaura Navamī. Śrī Rāma Navamī. Fast until noon. Appearance at noon of Śrī Mahārāj. Rāmachandra. 24. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Gopal Bhaṭṭa Goswāmī Prabhu. 17. (Sun) Gaura Ekādaśī. Kāmadā Ekādaśī. Fast. 27. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Lokanāth Goswāmī Prabhu. 18. (Mon) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 9:16 and 9:29 a.m. Festival in honour of the 30. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Kāmikā Ekādaśī. Fast. disappearance of Om Viṣṇupād Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakāchārya-varya Aṣṭottara- 31. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:09 and 6:20 a.m. śata-śrī Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj. Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Damanaka August 2016 Āropaṇ Utsav. 2. (Tue) Amāvasyā. Festival in honour of the disappearance of Om Viṣṇupād 22. (Fri) Pūrṇimā. Vasanta Rāsa of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Rāsa Yātrā of Śrī Balarām. Appearance of Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakāchārya-varya Aṣṭottara-śata-śrī Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīla Vaṁśī Vadanānanda Ṭhākur and Śrīla Śyāmānanda Prabhu. Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj. madhusūdan 6. (Sat) Gaura Chaturthī. Disappearance of Śrīla Vaṁśī Dās Bābājī Mahārāj. 27. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. Disappearance of Śrīpād Kṛṣṇadās Bābājī Mahārāj. 8. (Mon) Gaura Ṣaṣṭhī. Appearance of Śrīla Bhakti Vijay Trivikram Mahārāj. 29. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Saptamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Abhirām Ṭhākur. 10. (Wed) Gaura Saptamī. Disappearance of Śrīpād Anaṅga Mohan Dās Adhikārī. May 2016 12. (Fri) Gaura Navamī. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Bhakti Prasūn Bodhāyaṇ Mahārāj. 2. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Daśamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Vṛndāvan Dās Ṭhākur. 14. (Sun) Gaura Ekādaśī. Pavitrāropanī Ekādaśī. Fast. Beginning of Jhulan Yātrā of Śrī Śrī 3. (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Varuthinī Ekādaśī. Fast. Disappearance of Śrīyukta Saurīndranath Rādhā-Govinda and start of the one month festival of Śrī Hari Smaraṇ at Nabadwīp, Bhakti Vāridhi Prabhu. Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh. 4. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:06 and 8:21 a.m. 15. (Mon) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:15 and 9:32 a.m. Disappearance of Śrīla 6. (Fri) Amāvasyā. Appearance of Śrīla Gadādhar Paṇḍit Goswāmī. Rūpa Goswāmī and Śrīla Gaurī Dās Paṇḍit Goswāmī. 7. (Sat) Gaura Pratipad. Appearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Āloka 18. Appearance of Śrī Baladev. Fast until noon. Paramahaṁsa Mahārāj. (Thu) Pūrṇimā. End of Jhulan Yātrā 8. (Sun) Gaura Dvitīyā. Appearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Vichār Jājāvar Mahārāj. of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda. 9. (Mon) Gaura Tṛtīyā. Beginning of 21 day Chandan Yātrā of Śrī Śrī Jagannāthdev. hṛṣīkeṣ Akṣaya Tṛtīyā: a good day to start some works. 23. (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Bhakti Vilās Tapasvi Mahārāj. 11. (Wed) Gaura Pañchamī. Appearance of Śrīpād Śaṅkar Āchārya. Disappearance of 25. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī. Śrī Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmaṣṭamī. Complete fast until midnight, then Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Vilās Gabhāstinemī Mahārāj. no grains. 13. (Fri) Gaura Saptamī. Jahnu Saptamī. Śrī Jāhnavī Pūjā (Śrī Gaṅgā Pūjā). 26. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Navamī. Śrī Nandotsav. Śrī Janmāṣṭamī pāraṇ between 5:18 and 9:31 15. (Sun) Gaura Navamī. Appearance of Śrī Nityānanda-śakti Śrī Jāhnavā Devī and a.m. Appearance of Viśva-vareṇya Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Śrī Rama-śakti Śrī Sītā Devī. Appearance of Śrīla Bhakti Sudhīr Goswāmī Mahārāj. Mahārāj Prabhupād. 17. (Tue) Gaura Ekādaśī. Mohinī Ekādaśī. Fast. 28. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Annadā Ekādaśī. Fast. 18. (Wed) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 4:56 and 9:21 a.m. 29. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:20 and 9:32 a.m. 20. (Fri) Gaura Chaturdaśī. Śrī Nṛsiṁha Chaturdaśī: appearance day of Śrī Nṛsiṁhadev. September 2016 Full fast until after sunset, then no grains (anukalpa). 6. (Tue) Gaura Pañchamī. Appearance of Śrī Sītā Devī, the consort of Śrī Advaita Prabhu. 21. (Sat) Pūrṇimā. Śrī Nṛsiṁha Chaturdaśī pāraṇ between 4:56 and 9:20 a.m. Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s 8. (Thu) Gaura Saptamī. Śrī Lalitā Saptamī. Appearance of Śrī Lalitā Devī. Phul Dol and Salila Bihār. Buddha Pūrṇimā: appearance day of Lord Buddha. 9. (Fri) Gaura Aṣṭamī. Śrī Rādhāṣṭamī. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s appearance at noon. Fast Disappearance of Śrīla Parameśvarī Dās Ṭhākur. Appearance of Śrīla Śrīnivās Āchārya. until noon. trivikram 12. (Mon) Gaura Ekādaśī. No fast (because of Daśamī viddhā). 22. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Pratipad. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Sāraṅga 13. (Tue) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pārśva Ekādaśī. Fast. Appearance of Śrī Vāmanadev. Appearance Goswāmī Mahārāj. of Śrīla Jīva Goswāmī Prabhu. Śrī Hari Pārśva Parivartan. 27. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī. Disappearance of Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāy (because the Pañchamī 14. (Wed) Gaura Trayodaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:25 and 9:30 a.m. Appearance of Śrīla tithi on the previous day was viddhā). Sachchidānanda Bhakti Vinod Ṭhākur. June 2016 15. (Thu) Gaura Chaturdaśī. Disappearance of Śrīla Haridās Ṭhākur. 16. (Fri) Pūrṇimā. Viśvarūp Mahotsav. End of month-long festival at Nabadwīp, 1. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Aparā Ekādaśī. Fast. Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Math. 2. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 4:55 and 9:21 a.m. Appearance of Śrīla Vṛndāvan padmanābha Dās Ṭhākur. 18. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Dvitīyā. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Vilās Tīrtha 6. (Mon) Gaura Pratipad. Sree Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanushilana Sangha, Dum Mahārāj. Dum Park, Kolkata: Śrī Śrī Guru Gaurāṅga Rādhā Madan Mohan Jīu’s installation 26. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. No fast (because of Daśamī viddhā). day festival. 27. Indirā Ekādaśī. Fast 8. (Wed) Gaura Chaturthī. Disappearance of Śrīla Bhakti Gaurava Giri Mahārāj (Śrīpād (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. . Paramānanda Vidyāratna Prabhu). 28. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Trayodaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:29 a.m. and 9:27 a.m. 15. (Wed) Gaura Daśamī. Daśaharā. Śrī Gaṅgā Pūjā. Appearance of Śrī Gaṅgā Mātā October 2016 Goswāminī. Disappearance of Śrīla Baladev Vidyābhūṣaṇ Prabhu. 1. (Sat) Gaura Pratipad. Appearance festival of Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh Āchārya 16. (Thu) Gaura Ekādaśī. Nirjalā Ekādaśī. Fast (without water). and Sevāite Śrīla Bhakti Nirmal Āchārya Mahārāj. 17. (Fri) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 4:54 and 9:20 a.m. 4. (Tue) Gaura Tṛtīyā. Disappearance of Śrīyuktā Rādhārāṇī Devī Chaudurāṇī. 18. (Sat) Gaura Trayodaśī. Grand festival of Śrīla Raghunāth Dās Goswāmī at Śrīpāṭ 5. (Wed) Gaura Chaturthī. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīpād Bhakti Dayita Pānihāṭi. Dāmodar Mahārāj. 20. (Mon) Pūrṇimā. Snān Yātrā (bathing) of Śrī Jagannāthdev. Disappearance of Śrīla 11. (Tue) Gaura Daśamī. Vijay Utsav of Śrī Rāmachandra. Appearance of Śrī Madhva Mukunda Datta and Śrīla Śrīdhar Paṇḍit. Āchārya. vāman 12. (Wed) Gaura Ekādaśī. Pāśāṅkuśā Ekādaśī. Fast. 21. (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Pratipad. Disappearance of Śrīla Śyāmānanda Prabhu and Śrīpād Ṛṣabdev 13. (Thu) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:35 and 9:27 a.m. Disappearance of Śrīla Dās Adhikārī. Raghunāth Dās Goswāmī, Śrīla Raghunāth Bhaṭṭa Goswāmī, and Śrīla Kṛṣṇadās 22. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Dvitīyā. Disappearance of Śrī Gaurahari Bhakti Sampad Prabhu. Kavirāj Goswāmī. 25. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. Appearance of Śrīla Vakreśvar Paṇḍit. 16. (Sun) Pūrṇimā. Śāradīyā Rāsa Yātrā of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Disappearance of Śrīla Murārī 30. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. No fast (because of Daśamī viddhā). Disappearance of Śrīyuktā Gupta. Beginning of Ūrja Vrata, Dāmodar Vrata, Kārtik Vrata and Niyama-sevā Vrata Ramā Devī. if begun from the Pūrṇimā day, as followed in Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Math. dāmodar of Śrīla Gopal Bhaṭṭa Goswāmī Prabhu. Disappearance of Śrīla Rāmachandra Kavirāj. 18. (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Tṛtīyā. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Śrīrūp Purī 16. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Chaturthī. Disappearance of Śrīpād Yādavendu Bhakti Chandan. Mahārāj. 18. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī. Disappearance of Śrīla Jayadev Goswāmī. 20. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Narottam Dās Ṭhākur. 20. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Lochan Dās Ṭhākur. 21. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī. Disappearance of Śrīla Bhakti Vichār Jājāvar Mahārāj. 23. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Ṣaṭ-tilā Ekādaśī. Fast. 23. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī. Bahulāṣṭamī. Manifestation day of Śrī Rādhā Kuṇḍa. Sannyās 24. (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:54 and 10:00 a.m. day of Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj. 28. (Sat) Gaura Pratipad. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Gaurava 24. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Navamī. The grand 122nd appearance day celebration of Śrī Chaitanya Vaikhānas Mahārāj. Disappearance of Śrī Haripada Chaudhurī Dās Adhikārī. Sāraswat Math’s Founder-President-Āchārya, Om Viṣṇupād Paramahaṁsa 29. (Sun) Gaura Dvitīyā. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Śaraṇ Śānta Parivrājakāchārya-varya Aṣṭottara-śata-śrī Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīdhar Dev- Mahārāj. Goswāmī Mahārāj. Appearance of Śrīla Vīrachandra Prabhu. Disappearance of 31. (Tue) Gaura Chaturthī. Appearance of Śrīla Bhakti Pāvan Janārdan Mahārāj. Śrīpād Sakhī Charaṇ Dās Bābājī Mahārāj. February 2017 26. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Ramā Ekādaśī. Fast. 1. (Wed) Gaura Pañchamī. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Vasanta Pañchamī. Appearance day of Śrī Viṣṇu 27. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:42 and 9:27 a.m. Festival in honour of Śrī Priyā Devī. Appearance of Śrīla Puṇḍarīk Vidyānidhi, Śrīla Raghunāth Dās Goswāmī, Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu’s auspicious arrival at Śrīpāṭ Pānihāṭi. and Śrīla Raghu Nandan Ṭhākur. Disappearance of Śrīla Viśvanāth Chakravartī 29. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Chaturdaśī. Offering and placing of lamps (or candles) on Viṣṇu Mandirs. Ṭhākur, Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Viveka Bhāratī Mahārāj, and Tridaṇḍi Swāmī 30. (Sun) Amāvasyā. Dīpāvalī. Offering and placing of lamps (or candles) on Viṣṇu Mandirs. Śrīmad Bhakti Svarūp Parvat Mahārāj. Śrī Saraswatī Pūjā. 31. (Mon) Gaura Pratipad. Śrī Govardhan Pūjā. Grand Annakūṭ Mahotsav (‘Rice Mountain 3. (Fri) Gaura Saptamī. Appearance of Mahāviṣṇu Avatār, Śrī Advaita Āchārya. Festival’) at Śrīla Śrīdhar Swāmī Seva Ashram in Śrī Govardhan and in the Temple in 4. (Sat) Gaura Aṣṭamī. Disappearance of Śrīpād Vīrendra Kṛṣṇa Prabhu. Śrī Gupta Govardhan. Go Pūjā (cow-worship) and Go Krīḍā (the pleasure of the cows). 5. (Sun) Gaura Navamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Madhva Āchārya. November 2016 6. (Mon) Gaura Daśamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Rāmānuja Āchārya. 1. (Tue) Gaura Dvitīyā. Disappearance of Śrīla Vāsudev Ghoṣ Ṭhākur. Disappearance 7. (Tue) Gaura Ekādaśī. Bhaimī Ekādaśī. Fast. of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Sarvasva Giri Mahārāj. Bhrātrī Dvitīyā kṛtyam 8. (Wed) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:18 and 10:00 a.m after the worship of Śrī (festival where brothers and sisters honour each other). Varāhadev. Varāha Dvādaśī. Appearance of Lord Varāha. 3. (Thu) Gaura Chaturthī. Disappearance festival of Viśva-vareṇya Tridaṇḍi Swāmī 9. (Thu) Gaura Trayodaśī. Appearance of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu. Grand festival and Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Mahārāj Prabhupād. installation anniversary of Śrī Śrī Guru Gaura Nityānanda Jīu at Sree Chaitanya 4. (Fri) Gaura Pañchamī. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Āloka Saraswata Krishnanushilana Sangha, Ekachakra Dham. Paramahaṁsa Mahārāj. govinda 8. (Tue) Gaura Aṣṭamī. Disappearance of Śrī Gadādhar Dās Goswāmī, Śrīla Dhanañjay 11. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Pratipad. Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Madhurotsav. Appearance of Śrīla Narottam Dās Paṇḍit, and Śrīla Śrīnivās Āchārya Prabhu. Śrī Gopaṣṭamī, Śrī Goṣṭhāṣṭamī, Go Pūjā, Ṭhākur (because the Pūrṇimā tithi on the previous day was viddhā). and Go Grās-dān. 13. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Tṛtīyā. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīpād Bhakti Premik Siddhantī 10. (Thu) Gaura Ekādaśī. No fast (because of Daśamī viddhā). Disappearance of Om Mahārāj. Viṣṇupād Paramahaṁsa Śrī Śrīla Gaura Kiśor Dās Bābājī Mahārāj. Appearance 16. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Pañchamī. The 144th divine appearance festival of the founder of the of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Dayita Mādhav Goswāmī Mahārāj. Śrī Bhīṣma Śrī Chaitanya Maṭh and worldwide Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭhs, Bhagavān Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Pañchaka. Siddhānta Saraswatī Goswāmī Prabhupād. Anniversary festival of the installation 11. (Fri) Gaura Dvādaśī. Śrī Utthan Ekādaśī. Fast. Śrī Hari Utthan. of Śrī Gupta Govardhan Śrī Mandir, Śrī Govinda Kuṇḍa, Nabadwīp. Disappearance 12. (Sat) Gaura Trayodaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:51 and 9:30 a.m. of Śrīla Puruṣottam Ṭhākur. 13. (Sun) Gaura Chaturdaśī. Disappearance of Śrīla Bhūgarbha Goswāmī and Śrīla 17. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī. Appearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Sāraṅga Goswāmī Kaśīśvar Paṇḍit. Mahārāj. keśava 22. (Wed) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Vijayā Ekādaśī. Fast. Disappearance of Śrīpād Kṛṣṇa Govinda 14. (Mon) Pūrṇimā. Rāsa Yātrā of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Installation anniversary of Śrī Śrī Guru Dās Adhikārī. Gaurāṅga Gāndharvā Rāsa Bihārī Jīu, Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh and Mission, 23. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:09 and 9:56 a.m. Śrī Vṛndāvan. Disappearance of Śrīla Sundarānanda Ṭhākur. Appearance of Śrīla 25. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Chaturdaśī. Śrī Śrī Śivarātri (optional fast). Nimbārka Āchārya. End of Chaturmāsya and Niyama-sevā vratas when begun from 26. (Sun) Amāvasyā. Pāraṇ between 6:06 and 9:55 a.m. for those who fasted. Anniversary Pūrṇimā (as in Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh). festival of the installation of Śrī Sadāśiva Gaṅgādhar, Śrī Govinda Kuṇḍa, 25. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. Utpannā Ekādaśī. Fast. Nabadwīp. 26. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:02 and 9:36 a.m. Disappearance of Śrīla Narahari 27. (Mon) Gaura Pratipad. Disappearance of Vaiṣṇava Sārvabhauma Śrīla Jagannāth Sarkār Ṭhākur and Śrīla Kāliya Kṛṣṇadās. Dās Bābājī Mahārāj, Śrīla Rasikānanda Dev-Goswāmī, and Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad 27. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Trayodaśī. Disappearance of Śrīla Sāraṅga Ṭhākur. Bhakti Dayita Mādhav Mahārāj. 29. (Tue) Amāvasyā. Disappearance of Śrīla Jagabandhu Bhakti Rañjan. 28. (Tue) Gaura Dvitīyā. Appearance of Śrīla Bhakti Kusum Āśram Mahārāj. December 2016 March 2017 5. (Mon) Gaura Ṣaṣṭhī and Oḍan Ṣaṣṭhī. Grand festival for honouring the appearance of 1. (Wed) Gaura Tṛtīyā. Śrī Śrī Guru Gaurāṅga Gāndharvā Rādhā Ramaṇasundar Jīu Śrī Śrī Nitai-Chaitanya Jīu at Śrī Purī Dhām, Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh. installation anniversary festival, at Sree Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanushilana 7. (Wed) Gaura Aṣṭamī. Disappearance of Śrīla Madhusūdan Dās Bābājī Mahārāj. Sangha, Kaikhali, Kolkata. 8. (Thu) Gaura Navamī. Appearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Kamal 2. (Thu) Gaura Chaturthī. Appearance of Śrīla Puruṣottam Ṭhākur. Disappearance of Madhusūdan Mahārāj. Śrīpād Tulasīdās Dās Adhikārī Prabhu. 9. (Fri) Gaura Daśamī. Disappearance of Tridaṇḍi Swāmī Śrīmad Bhakti Kusum Śramaṇ 3. (Fri) Gaura Pañchamī. Disappearance of Śrīyuktā Taraṅginī Devī. Mahārāj. 7. (Tue) Gaura Daśamī. Adhivās festival of Śrī Nabadwīp Dham Parikramā. Beginning 10. (Sat) Gaura Ekādaśī. Mokṣadā Ekādaśī. Fast. of annual seven day festival. 11. (Sun) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:11 and 9:43 a.m. 8. (Wed) Gaura Ekādaśī. Āmalakī Ekādaśī. Fast. Śrī Nabadwīp Dham Parikramā begins. nārāyaṇ Parikramā of Śrī Sīmantadwīp, Śrī Rudradwīp, and Śrī Antardwīp. 15. (Thu) Kṛṣṇa Dvitīyā. The grand 88th appearance day celebration of Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat 9. (Thu) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 5:56 and 9:50 a.m. Disappearance of Śrīpād Maṭh’s Sevāite-President-Āchārya, Om Viṣṇupād Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakāchārya- Mādhavendra Purī. Parikramā of Śrī Koladwīp. varya Aṣṭottara-śata-śrī Śrīmal Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj. 10. (Fri) Gaura Trayodaśī. Parikramā of Śrī Godrumadwīp and Śrī Madhyadwīp. 16. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Tṛtīyā. Festivals at the appearance place of Śrīla B. S. Govinda Dev- 11. (Sat) Gaura Chaturdaśī. Adhivās observance ceremony of the appearance of Goswāmī Mahārāj and his youth Pastimes place: Bamunpara and Nadan Ghat. Śrī Gaurāṅga. Parikramā of Śrī Koladwīp, Śrī Ṛtudwīp, Śrī Jahnudwīp, and Śrī 17. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Chaturthī. Disappearance festival of the founder of the Śrī Chaitanya Modadrumadwīp. Maṭh and worldwide Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭhs, Bhagavān Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta 12. (Sun) Śrī Gaurāvirbhāva Paurnamāsī. Śrī Gaura Pūrṇimā. Divine appearance of Śrī Saraswatī Goswāmī Prabhupād. Gaurāṅga. Total fast until moonrise, then no grains. Grand festival at Śrī Chaitanya 24. (Sat) Kṛṣṇa Ekādaśī. No fast (because of Mahādvādaśī). Disappearance of Śrīla Sāraswat Maṭh. Vasantotsav and Dol Yātrā of Śrī Śrī Radha-Govinda. Special offer- Devānanda Paṇḍit and Śrīmad Bhakti Prakāś Araṇya Mahārāj. ing of worship and ārati. Śrī Chaitanya-charitāmṛta reading and mahāsaṅkīrtan. End 25. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Vyañjulī Mahādvādaśī. Fast. Disappearance of Śrīpād Bhakti of year 530 Gaurābda. Bhūdev Śrauti Mahārāj. viṣṇu 26. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 6:21 and 6:29 a.m. 13. (Mon) Kṛṣṇa Pratipad. Śrī Gaura Pūrṇimā pāraṇ between 5:53 and 9:48 a.m. 27. (Tue) Kṛṣṇa Trayodaśī. Disappearance of Śrīla Maheś Paṇḍit and Śrīla Uddhāraṇ Ānandotsav of Śrī Jagannāth Miśra. Last gathering of the week-long yearly meeting Dās Ṭhākur. at Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh and yearly festival. Start of year 532 Gaurābda. 30. (Fri) Gaura Pratipad. Appearance of Śrīla Lochan Dās Ṭhākur. Note: Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj has instructed that this January 2017 calendar should be followed outside of West Bengal for all dates except Ekādasīs (or 1. (Sun) Gaura Tṛtīyā. Disappearance of Śrīla Jīva Goswāmī Prabhu and Śrīla Jagadīś Mahādvādaśīs) and their associated pāraṇ times, which should be calculated and Paṇḍit. observed according to locality. Please consult your local centre for the appropriate 8. (Sun) Gaura Ekādaśī. Putradā Ekādaśī. Fast. Appearance of Śrīla Jagadīś Paṇḍit. calculations. 9. (Mon) Gaura Dvādaśī. Pāraṇ between 7:42 and 9:57 a.m. 12. (Thu) Pūrṇimā. Puṣyābhiṣeka Yātrā of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Disappearance of Śrīpād Bhakti Śaraṇ Vaiṣṇava Mahārāj. mādhava 13. (Fri) Kṛṣṇa Pratipad. Śrīman Mahāprabhu leaves Nabadwīp in the night to go to Katwa to take sannyās. 15. (Sun) Kṛṣṇa Tṛtīyā. Remembrance of Śrīman Mahāprabhu’s sannyās-līlā. Appearance