Friday
Friday, 23 January 2026
Pañcamī, Gaura (bright) pakṣa Māgha (Mādhava) māsa · Gaurābda 539 Nakṣatra: Pūrva-bhādrapadā
8 songs to sing todayVasanta Pañcamī
The first day of spring. In Vṛndāvana the Deities are dressed in yellow, and songs of spring are sung for Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
Sarasvatī Pūjā
Worship of Sarasvatī Devī, goddess of learning. Vaiṣṇavas pray to her to give pure speech for describing the glories of the Lord.
Appearance day of Srimati Vishnupriya Devi
The Wife Who Waited a Lifetime in Separation
- Appeared
- 16th century; exact year not recorded in the available sources
- Place
- Navadwip, Nadia district, Bengal
The second wife of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, left at Navadwip when He took sannyasa at twenty-four; she spent decades in austere separation, worshipping a Deity of Him still served today.
Appearance day of Srila Pundarika Vidyanidhi
The wealthy Vaishnava whom Mahaprabhu called father
- Appeared
- Vasanta-panchami, exact year unrecorded
- Place
- Chakrashala, near Mekhala, Hathazari, Chittagong district (now Bangladesh)
Long before Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wept for him in the middle of a crowded room in Nabadwip, Pundarika Vidyanidhi was simply a landowner's son in the east of Bengal, in a district that today lies in Bangladesh. His family's story is unusually well documented for someone of his generation, mostly because Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura went looking for it and wrote down what he found in his Anubhashya to the Chaitanya-charitamrita.
Appearance day of Srila Raghunandana Thakura
The Child Who Fed Sri Gopinatha
- Appeared
- c. 1510 AD (Shaka 1432), Srikhanda
- Place
- Srikhanda, Bardhaman district, Bengal
Srikhanda lay a few miles west of Katwa on the Bengal side of the Ganges. By the time Raghunandana was born there, it was already one of the villages with the most devotees in the whole of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Bengal. Srila Prabhupada's purport to Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, Adi-lila 10.78-79, describes the family in a few clear lines. A man named Narayana Dasa had (at least) three sons. The eldest, Mukunda Dasa, became a royal physician.
Appearance day of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Goswami
Foremost in Renunciation Among the Six Goswamis of Vrindavana
- Appeared
- c. 1494 (sources vary)
- Place
- Saptagrama area, Hooghly district, Bengal (some secondary sources specify the village of Krishnapura)
Raghunatha Dasa was born the only son of Govardhana Majumadara, a landholder of the Saptagrama area in Bengal's Hooghly district. Govardhana and his elder brother Hiranya Dasa together collected a share of the region's tax revenue on behalf of the ruling government. By the standards of sixteenth-century Bengal their household was extraordinarily rich.
Disappearance day of Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura
Author of the Sarartha-darsini and Architect of Raganuga-Bhakti
- Departed
- c. 1708, Vasanta-panchami (Magha)
- Place
- Radha-kunda, Vrindavana
Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura's final years are remembered mainly for one important decision, not for events in his own life. His disappearance is remembered for the place where it happened, not for a date that everyone agrees on.
Songs to sing
- Jaya Radhe Jaya Krsna Jaya VrndavanaKrsna Dasa
- Jaya Radha MadhavaBhaktivinoda Thakura
- Krsnotkirtana Gana NartanaSrinivasa Acarya · Srila Raghunatha Dasa Goswami
- Nija Pati BhujaRaghunatha Dasa Goswami · Srila Raghunatha Dasa Goswami
- Gurau Gosthe GosthalayisuRaghunatha Dasa Goswami · Srila Raghunatha Dasa Goswami
- 6 Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura PraṇāmaSrila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura
- Krsna Prasadena SamastaVisvanatha Cakravarti Thakura · Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura
- Samsara Davanala Lidha LokaVisvanatha Cakravarti Thakura · Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura
Dates and fasting times follow the ISKCON Vaiṣṇava calendar (GCal) for Vrindavan. Times in your town can differ by a few minutes.