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Showing posts with label Govardhan Puja. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Govardhan Puja. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Govardhan Puja (Annakut, Annakoot, Bali Pratipada) 2026, November 9 and 10: Dates for US, Canada, UK, India and More

Govardhan Puja and Annakut 2026 are on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 in India, and on Monday, November 9 in the United States, Canada, the UK and the UAE. In Singapore, Australia and Fiji the day is Tuesday, November 10.

Govardhan Puja honours Govardhana Hill and Lord Krishna, who lifted it to shelter the people of Vraja. It comes on the day after Diwali, the first day of the bright half of Kartika. The same day is the Annakut (Annakoot), when a mountain of cooked food is offered to Krishna and to Govardhana Hill, especially in Vaishnava temples. It is also Bali Pratipada, also called Bali Padyami, the day of the generous king Bali. Gujarati families keep it as their New Year, Bestu Varas: see the Gujarati New Year page for your city.

Govardhan and the Annakut

The Bhagavata Purana tells the story. One year Krishna saw the cowherds of Vraja getting ready a great sacrifice for Indra, the king of the gods, who sends the rain. Krishna told them to honour what really keeps them alive. The cowherds live in the forests and on the hills, he said, so let this sacrifice be for the cows, for the learned brahmanas and for Govardhana Hill.

He asked them to cook every kind of food, from sweet rice to cakes and all kinds of milk sweets, to give food to everyone, even the dogs, to give grass to the cows, and to make the offerings to the hill. Dressed in their best, the people walked around the cows, the brahmanas, the sacred fires and the hill, the women following in carts and singing. Krishna took a huge new form, declared "I am Govardhana!", and ate the great heap of offerings. This mountain of food for the hill is remembered as the Annakut.

Indra was furious. He sent the clouds of the world's ending, and rain, hail and wind flooded Vraja. The shivering people and cows ran to Krishna. He lifted Govardhana Hill with one hand, as easily as a child holds up a mushroom, and sheltered everyone beneath it with their cows and carts. For seven days he held up the hill, forgetting hunger and thirst. Then Indra, his pride broken, called back his clouds, the sun shone again, and Krishna set the hill back in its place.

Bali Pratipada

The Bhagavata Purana and the Padma Purana tell of Bali, grandson of Prahlada and a generous king of the demons. Lord Vishnu came to him as Vamana, a small brahmana boy, and asked for just three steps of land. Bali's guru Shukra warned him that the boy was Vishnu, but Bali would not break his word. Vamana grew until he filled the universe: one step covered the earth, the second the heavens, and Bali bowed and offered his own head for the third.

Pleased with his truthfulness, the Lord gave Bali the realm of Sutala and promised to stay with him and protect him always. The Padma Purana says that Vishnu himself granted Bali this festival on the first day of Kartika's bright half, when Bali is honoured and the day is sacred both to Vishnu and to the demons.

There is also a traditional telling, popular for Bali Padyami, for which no single Purana passage is known: Vishnu granted Bali that he could return to the earth for one day each year to be with his people, and this day is kept as Bali's yearly return.

Govardhan Puja 2026, city by city

Click your city for the full page, with sunrise, sunset and the panchang of the day.

United States (Monday, November 9)

Canada (Monday, November 9)

United Kingdom (Monday, November 9)

India (Tuesday, November 10)

United Arab Emirates (Monday, November 9)

Singapore, Australia and Fiji (Tuesday, November 10)

Your city is not here? Open mypanchang.com/govardhanpuja.php and choose your city. There is also a page for the Annakoot. In Hindi: गोवर्धन पूजा

Govardhan Puja is the fourth of the five days of Diwali. Before it come Dhanteras, Naraka Chaturdashi and Diwali (Sunday, November 8), and after it comes Bhai Dooj. Each page shows the date for your own city.

For the full sankalpa for any day and your city: mypanchang.com/sankalpa

May Lord Krishna, who held up Govardhana to shelter his people, shelter your family too, and may your home always have food to share. Wishing you a blessed Govardhan Puja and Annakut.

Pundit Mahesh Shastri
www.mypanchang.com

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