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Saturday, 28 February 2026
Dvādaśī, Gaura (bright) pakṣa Phālguna (Govinda) māsa · Gaurābda 539 Nakṣatra: Punarvasu
Disappearance day of Srila Madhavendra Puri
Root of the Gaudiya Bhakti Creeper
- Departed
- Not precisely dated in Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita itself; Wikipedia estimates circa 1490
- Place
- Bengal or Orissa, while journeying between Vrindavana and Jagannatha Puri; his samadhi is kept at Remuna, Orissa, beside the Kshira-chora Gopinatha temple
Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita gives no fixed year for Madhavendra Puri's disappearance, and no text gives one with any confidence. The commonly cited estimate of roughly 1490 is itself worked out from the dates of events around his life. It is not a date recorded anywhere in Vaishnava scripture. What the tradition does preserve in real detail is the way he passed away, not the calendar date.
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Dates and fasting times follow the ISKCON Vaiṣṇava calendar (GCal) for Vrindavan. Times in your town can differ by a few minutes.