Tuesday
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Navamī, Kṛṣṇa (dark) pakṣa Kārtika (Dāmodara) māsa · Gaurābda 540 Nakṣatra: Maghā
Appearance day of Srila Viracandra Prabhu
Son of Nityananda Prabhu and Founding Figure of the Nityananda-vamsa
- Appeared
- Ninth day of the dark fortnight of Kartika, according to one tradition; Agrahayana shukla chaturdashi (the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Agrahayana), according to the Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana. Sources disagree, and no year is known for certain
- Place
- Khardaha, on the Ganges north of present-day Kolkata
Nityananda Prabhu spent the first half of his life as a wandering avadhuta, a renounced holy man who had gone completely beyond the ordinary rules of caste and custom. Yet he ended his life as a married householder at Khardaha, with two wives and children. This is one of the more surprising turns in Gaudiya Vaishnava history, and Viracandra's own story begins there.
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.