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Festivals and vrats · महावीर जयंती

Mahavir Jayanti

Birth of Vardhamana Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, on Chaitra Shukla Trayodashi.

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How the date is fixed

Mahavir Jayanti falls on the thirteenth day of the bright half of the lunar month Chaitra (Shukla Trayodashi). The date is the day on which that tithi is running at sunrise (the usual rule, called udaya tithi).

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Mahavir Jayanti falls on the thirteenth tithi of the bright half of Chaitra, usually in late March or April. Jain tradition records the birth at Kundagrama near Vaishali in 599 BCE, in Uttara Phalguni nakshatra. The tithi at sunrise fixes the day, and it is a gazetted holiday in India. Both Shvetambara and Digambara communities keep the same date, which is uncommon among Jain observances.

How it is observed

Processions with the Tirthankara's image, abhisheka at Jain temples and readings from the Kalpa Sutra.

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