Datta Jayanti 2027: Date, Datta Navratri and Ganagapur Yatra

Datta Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Shri Dattatreya, is on Monday, 13 December 2027, Margashirsha Pournima. The calendar lists it as Shri Dattatreya Janmotsav. The Datta Navratri, a seven-day utsav at Datta temples, begins on Sunday, 5 December.

Datta dates in 2027

Nrusimha Saraswati Jayanti appears twice in the calendar year because its tithi, Paush Shuddha Dwitiya, comes in early January and again at the end of December.

How Datta Jayanti is kept

The janma is celebrated at sunset in most Datta temples, with a cradle ceremony and the aarti "Trigunatmak Traimurti Datta ha jana". Devotees read the Gurucharitra over the seven days of the Navratri and finish it on Jayanti day. Sunthavda and panchamrut are the usual prasad.

The main places for Datta devotees in and around Maharashtra are Ganagapur (Karnataka border), Narsobachi Wadi in Kolhapur district, Audumbar in Sangli, Karanja (birthplace of Nrusimha Saraswati) and Mahur. All of them hold a yatra in the Datta Navratri week.

Other dates that week

Champa Shashthi and the Khandoba utsav are on 4 December, the day before Datta Navratri begins; see Jejuri Khandoba 2027. The calendar also marks the Renuka yatra at Saundatti and the Yogeshwari yatra at Ambajogai on 13 December.

All full moon dates are in Purnima 2027, the Swami Samarth and Gajanan Maharaj dates in Shirdi, Akkalkot and Shegaon 2027, and the daily panchang on the December 2027 Marathi calendar.