Events & Observances
The year at Sringeri moves with the lunar calendar — through festivals of the Goddess, commemorations of the Acharyas, assemblies of scholars, and the Jagadguru’s own observances.
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Sri Sharada Sharannavaratri Mahotsava 2026
The most festive season of the Peetham. For eleven days Goddess Sharada is worshipped in a different form each day, a Shatachandi Yaga culminates in the Poornahuti on Mahanavami, and the Jagadguru holds the traditional Durbar each day — a custom the Peetham traces to the time of Sri Vidyaranya.
Dates as announced by Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham. Please consult the Peetham for the programme.
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52nd Chaturmasya Vrata
Sringeri
The Jagadguru observed his fifty-second Chaturmasya at Sringeri, beginning with Vyasa Puja on the full moon of Ashadha and concluding on the full moon of Bhadrapada.
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Vajrotsava Bharati — the 75th Vardhanti
Sringeri
Celebrations of the Jagadguru’s seventy-fifth birthday by the lunar calendar, with the Vardhanti itself on 3 April 2025 (Chaitra Shukla Shashthi). Stotras he composed on the 33rd Acharya were chanted, and the Peetham reported on the service programme of the preceding jubilee year.
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Harihara Namamrita inaugurated
Vijayadashami
Inaugurated on Vijayadashami as one of the initiatives of the golden jubilee year.
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35th Aradhana of Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Mahaswamiji
Sringeri
The annual commemoration of the Mahasamadhi of the present Jagadguru’s Guru, observed at Sringeri.
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First Shrauta Maha Sammelan
Suvarna Bharati
The first of an annual gathering of Shrauta scholars, instituted during the golden jubilee year.
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Suvarna Bharati begins — 50 years of Sannyasa
Sringeri
The fiftieth year of the Jagadguru’s Sannyasa opened with the conclusion of an Ati Rudra Mahayaga (30 October – 10 November) and a Sahasra Chandi Mahayaga (6–10 November), the unveiling of the 32-foot granite image of Adi Shankaracharya on Shankara Giri by both Jagadgurus, and the honouring of nine Vedanta scholars. The year’s programme included a Stotra Triveni Mahasamarpana at Sringeri attended by nearly 50,000 devotees.
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Sri Sharada consecrated at Teetwal, Kashmir
Teetwal, near the Line of Control
The Pratishtha Kumbhabhisheka of Sri Sharada was performed by Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Sannidhanam with the blessings of both Jagadgurus.
Event details are taken from announcements and reports published by Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham on sringeri.net.
The lunar year
Annual observances
Arranged by lunar month, beginning with Chaitra. Gregorian dates change from year to year.
Chaitra
- VardhantiThe Jagadguru’s birthday, Shukla Shashthi
- Chaitra PoornimaA festival of Sri Sharadamba
Vaishakha
- Shankara JayantiShukla Pratipat to Panchami; around 200 Vedic scholars honoured, and a Shastra conference at Kalady
Ashadha
- Vyasa PujaGuru Poornima; the Chaturmasya begins
Bhadrapada
- Ganapati Vakyartha Vidwat SabhaFrom Shukla Chaturthi; scholars debate the four Shastras
- Chaturmasya concludesOn the full moon
- Mahalaya AmavasyaAradhana of Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati (34th)
Ashwayuja
- SharannavaratriShukla Pratipat to Ekadashi; daily Durbar
- Peetharohana anniversaryKrishna Panchami — the Jagadguru’s ascension, 1989
- Sannyasa anniversaryKrishna Dvadashi — the Jagadguru’s Sannyasa, 1974
Kartika
- Vidyatirtha RathotsavaShukla Tritiya to Navami, at the Vidyashankara temple
- Karthika Poornima DeepotsavaFestival of lamps
Magha
- Sharadamba RathotsavaTritiya
- Lalitha PanchamiShukla Panchami
Guru-related observances
Honouring the Guru
Several of the year’s observances are devoted to the Acharyas themselves. The Vardhanti, the Jagadguru’s birthday by the lunar calendar, is celebrated at the Peetham with special worship. The anniversaries of his Sannyasa and Peetharohana fall in the dark fortnight of Ashwayuja. The Aradhanas of earlier Acharyas commemorate their Mahasamadhi — that of Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati on Mahalaya Amavasya, and that of Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha each September.
At the centre of such occasions is pada puja, the worship of the Guru’s feet — an expression, familiar throughout Indian tradition, of reverence for the teacher as the one through whom knowledge comes. Vyasa Puja on Guru Poornima honours the whole Parampara, beginning with Veda Vyasa, and opens the Chaturmasya, during which the Jagadguru has taught the Brahma Sutras.
The Jagadguru’s Vijaya Yatras — journeys to meet devotees across India — have been another part of his calendar: as Jagadguru in 1992, 1994–95, 2007, 2010, 2012–13 and, with his successor, in 2015 and 2017. Photographs of the Jagadguru are gathered in the Gallery.
