Festival
Jhulana-yātrā
The swing festival
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.
During the rains, the deities of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are set on a flower-hung swing and gently rocked, often to sung verse. It is one of the seasonal līlās of , kept by the — the eight principal friends the chart places on the petal-tips around the central couple, whose service is exactly this kind of unhurried attention.
On the chart
Sources
- Gauḍīya Vraja tradition; later devotional textsChart / explanatory tradition
A study reference, not a devotional instruction. Observance varies by community and is not detailed here.