Digambar
Other Digambar observances
Vir Shasan Jayanti, Shravan Krishna 1 in the purnimanta reckoning (Ashadh Vad 1 in the amanta one): Mahavira’s first divya-dhvani at the samavasarana on Vipulachal at Rajgriha, traditionally sixty-six days after kevaljnana, when Indrabhuti Gautama became the first ganadhara — 30 July 2026 per the Songadh panchang. Sugandha Dashami, Bhadrapada Shukla 10, inside Das Lakshan: dhup and sandalwood incense offered before the twenty-four Tirthankaras and the Jinvani, with the Sugandha Dashami katha at night; largely observed by women. Ratnatraya Vrat, Shukla 12 or 13 to 15, three times a year in Chaitra, Bhadrapada and Magha, honouring samyak darshana, jnana and charitra — sources differ on whether it runs three days or four. Solah Karan Vrat, which runs through Bhadrapada and ends on Kshamavani, for the sixteen bhavanas that bind tirthankara-nama-karma. Rot Tij, Bhadrapada Shukla 3, when thick wheat cakes are made, linked to Rishabhdev’s fast. Mahamastakabhisheka of Bahubali at Shravanabelagola, held approximately every twelve years — last in February 2018, next expected around 2030. Rathotsava has no single pan-Jain date and is kept kshetra by kshetra.
- Digambar
- kept by
- Various
- how long
- Vir Shasan Jayanti: 30 July 2026
- when it falls
What is done
Vir Shasan Jayanti, Shravan Krishna 1 in the purnimanta reckoning (Ashadh Vad 1 in the amanta one): Mahavira’s first divya-dhvani at the samavasarana on Vipulachal at Rajgriha, traditionally sixty-six days after kevaljnana, when Indrabhuti Gautama became the first ganadhara — 30 July 2026 per the Songadh panchang. Sugandha Dashami, Bhadrapada Shukla 10, inside Das Lakshan: dhup and sandalwood incense offered before the twenty-four Tirthankaras and the Jinvani, with the Sugandha Dashami katha at night; largely observed by women. Ratnatraya Vrat, Shukla 12 or 13 to 15, three times a year in Chaitra, Bhadrapada and Magha, honouring samyak darshana, jnana and charitra — sources differ on whether it runs three days or four. Solah Karan Vrat, which runs through Bhadrapada and ends on Kshamavani, for the sixteen bhavanas that bind tirthankara-nama-karma. Rot Tij, Bhadrapada Shukla 3, when thick wheat cakes are made, linked to Rishabhdev’s fast. Mahamastakabhisheka of Bahubali at Shravanabelagola, held approximately every twelve years — last in February 2018, next expected around 2030. Rathotsava has no single pan-Jain date and is kept kshetra by kshetra.
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- Rot Tij as a Shwetambar observance
- Claimed in places; we could not confirm it.
- A ten-year Sugandha Dashami vrat, and the "32 days" of Solah Karan Vrat
- Both circulate widely and neither could be confirmed.
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- JAINpedia — Anointing of BahubaliInstitutional or scholarly
- Jain Tithi Darpan 2026, SongadhCommunity source
- Prof. Y. K. Malaiya, Colorado State — Jain calendarInstitutional or scholarly
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