Observance
Gītā Jayantī
Mokṣadā Ekādaśī — the day the Bhagavad-gītā was spoken
Dates follow the Māyāpur (India) reckoning, the base of most published Vaiṣṇava calendars. The tradition sets each day by the tithi present at local sunrise, so your own date may fall a day earlier or later — see the calendar for your city.
and wider Hindu tradition marks this day as the one on which Kṛṣṇa spoke the Bhagavad-gītā to Arjuna, on the field of Kurukṣetra, before the war. It is the one Ekādaśī that is also a scriptural anniversary. The Gītā is the text the chart's account of Kṛṣṇa as the source of all forms leans on most heavily, and several of this site's essays begin from a single verse of it.
On the chart
Sources
- Bhagavad-gītā; Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma-parva; traditional datingDirect scriptural support
A study reference, not a devotional instruction. Observance varies by community and is not detailed here.