Tuesday
Tuesday, 28 December 2027
Pratipat, Gaura (bright) pakṣa Pauṣa (Nārāyaṇa) māsa Nakṣatra: Pūrva-āṣāḍhā
Appearance day of Srila Lochana Dasa Thakura
Author of Sri Chaitanya-mangala and Poet of the Srikhanda Vaishnavas
- Appeared
- 1523 (a minority of sources give 1520)
- Place
- Kograma (Kogram), near the Ajaya River, Katwa, Bardhaman (Burdwan) district, Bengal
Sources broadly agree that Lochana Dasa Thakura was born in the village of Kograma (also spelled Kogram), close to the Ajaya River in what is today Bardhaman (Burdwan) district, West Bengal. The village is roughly ten miles north of the present-day Guskara railway station. Most sources give his birth year as 1523. At least one older account gives 1520 instead, and describes him as appearing thirty-four years after Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own birth.
Songs to sing
- Parama Karuna Pahu Dui JanaLocana Dasa Thakura
- Akrodha ParamanandaLocana Dasa Thakura
- Nitai Guna ManiLocana Dasa Thakura
- Avatara Sara Gora AvataraLocana Dasa Thakura
- Nitai Mora Jibana DhanaLocana Dasa Thakura
- Ke Jabi Ke JabiLocana Dasa Thakura
- Bhaja Bhaja HariLocana Dasa Thakura
- 8 Nitai Gaura NamaLocana Dasa Thakura
- 9 Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai Bhava Sindhu ParaLocana Dasa Thakura
- 10 Jībera Bhāgye Abanī Bihare Dona Bhā ILocana Dasa Thakura
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