Wednesday
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Pañcamī, Kṛṣṇa (dark) pakṣa Māgha (Mādhava) māsa · Gaurābda 539 Nakṣatra: Maghā
5 songs to sing today
Appearance day of Sri Gopala Bhatta Goswami
Compiler of the Hari-bhakti-vilasa and Discoverer of Sri Radha Raman
- Appeared
- c. 1503 (traditionally the 13th day of the dark half of Pausha)
- Place
- Srirangam, South India
Sri Gopala Bhatta Goswami was born around 1503 in Srirangam, an island town in the Kaveri River in what is now Tamil Nadu. Tradition specifies the day as the thirteenth day of the dark half of the month of Pausha. By the sixteenth century, Srirangam was already one of the most important pilgrimage sites in South India. It was built around the huge Sri Ranganathaswamy temple, dedicated to Vishnu lying on the serpent Ananta Shesha.
Disappearance day of Srila Ramachandra Kaviraja
Poet-Disciple of Shrinivasa Acharya and Closest Friend of Narottama Dasa Thakura
- Departed
- Not recorded by year; sources differ on the exact date (the dark-fortnight tritiya of Pausha per one account, Krishna-trayodashi of Magha per another)
- Place
- Vrindavana; samadhi in the Dhira Samira grove, beside Shrinivasa Acharya's own samadhi
A Bengali physician-poet who renounced worldliness on his own wedding day, earned the title Kaviraja from Jiva Goswami, and became Narottama Dasa Thakura's closest friend.
Songs to sing
Dates and fasting times follow the ISKCON Vaiṣṇava calendar (GCal) for Vrindavan. Times in your town can differ by a few minutes.