Disappearance day

Disappearance of Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī

Date
29 July 2026
Tithi
Āṣāḍha śukla-caturdaśī — the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Āṣāḍha

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.

Sanātana Gosvāmī left a ministerial post in the Bengal government to join Caitanya, who sent him to Vṛndāvana. There he and his brother Rūpa located and restored the sites of Kṛṣṇa's pastimes and produced the tradition's early systematic texts — the Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta and the Hari--vilāsa among them. communities mark his disappearance day at Vṛndāvana.

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Sources

  • Bhakti-ratnākara; Gauḍīya hagiographical traditionChart / explanatory tradition

A study reference, not a devotional instruction. Observance varies by community and is not detailed here.