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Festivals and observances

Every observance in the year, with the tradition that keeps it and the date exactly as published.

27
observances in the year
both traditions
shown side by side
2026
the year covered
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Computed astronomically for Mumbai. This is not a Jain tithi — follow your own sangh’s panchang.

Every date on these pages was published by a named source and is attributed to it. We do not compute festival dates, and where two panchangs give two days we print both rather than choose.

The pair most often confused

Paryushan and Das Lakshan are two festivals, not one

Different traditions, different lengths, different texts — and Das Lakshan begins the day Paryushan ends. Anything that presents them as one festival with two names has got it wrong.

Shwetambar

Paryushan Parva

पर्युषण पर्व

પર્યુષણ પર્વ

Duration
Eight days
How the date is fixed
Eight days ending at Bhadarva Sud 4 for Murtipujak, and at Sud 5 for Sthanakavasi and Terapanth. The Sthanakavasi and Terapanth rule is stated positively as the fiftieth day from Ashadha Sud 15, per the Samavayanga and the Nishitha. If Shravan or Bhadarva is a vriddhi month, Sthanakavasi and Terapanth keep Paryushan a full month earlier.
Dates as published

8–15 September 2026 — Melbourne Shwetambar Jain Sangh (MSJS)

Kept by all three Shwetambar branches — Murtipujak, Sthanakavasi and Terapanth. Digambars do not keep Paryushan; their annual parva is Das Lakshan, which begins the day Paryushan ends. The two are separate observances, not two names for one.

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Digambar

Dashalakshana Parva

दशलक्षण पर्व

દશલક્ષણ પર્વ

Duration
Ten days
How the date is fixed
Ten days, Bhadrapada Shukla 5 to Shukla 14 — the last day being Ananta Chaturdashi.
Dates as published

16–25 September 2026 — derived from Ananta Chaturdashi = 25 September (BhaktiBharat)

15–24 September 2026 — BhaktiBharat’s own Das Lakshan page

Digambar. It is not a ten-day version of Paryushan: it is structured around the ten dharmas of the Tattvartha Sutra rather than the life of Mahavira, it runs on different days, and it ends in Ananta Chaturdashi and then Kshamavani rather than in Samvatsari Pratikraman.

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The day of forgiveness

Samvatsari and Kshamavani

The day of forgiveness, kept by every Jain — and kept on different days. Shwetambars keep Samvatsari as the last day of Paryushan: Bhadrapada Shukla 4 for Murtipujak, Shukla 5 for Sthanakavasi and Terapanth. Digambars keep Kshamavani about two days after Ananta Chaturdashi, at the Krishna Pratipada that follows it. In 2026 that is Tuesday 15 September and approximately Sunday 27 September — twelve days apart. Neither is a correction of the other.

खामेमि सव्वे जीवा, सव्वे जीवा खमंतु मे ।
मित्ती मे सव्व भूएसु, वेरं मज्झ न केणइ ॥

Khāmemi savve jīvā, savve jīvā khamantu me; mettī me savva-bhūesu, veraṃ majjha na keṇavi.

I forgive all living beings; may all living beings forgive me. My friendship is with all beings; my enmity with none. This verse is recited in both traditions.
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Everything else

The rest of the year

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