Shwetambar
Kartik Purnima
Chaturmas ends and monks resume vihar. Shatrunjaya at Palitana reopens after the rains, and this is the year’s largest yatra — the day the ninety-nine yatra is commonly begun. Dravid and Varikhilla are held to have attained liberation here with ten crore sadhus. Kayotsarga of twenty-one Logassa, twenty-one khamasana and twenty-one svastikas are performed.
- Shwetambar
- kept by
- One day
- how long
- 24 November 2026
- when it falls
Which traditions keep it
Kept by Shwetambars. Whether Digambars mark this day is not something we could confirm, so we do not say either way.
What is done
Chaturmas ends and monks resume vihar. Shatrunjaya at Palitana reopens after the rains, and this is the year’s largest yatra — the day the ninety-nine yatra is commonly begun. Dravid and Varikhilla are held to have attained liberation here with ten crore sadhus. Kayotsarga of twenty-one Logassa, twenty-one khamasana and twenty-one svastikas are performed.
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