Monday, 09 June 2025 [Mayapur, West Bengal, India Time]
Panihati Chida-Dahi Festival

Panihati Chida-dahi Mahotsav, also known as the Chipped Rice Festival, is a yearly celebration of the pastimes of Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and Lord Nityananda Prabhu. This astonishing pastime took place on the banks of the Ganges at Panihati, which is approximately a 30-minute drive from Kolkata airport. Lord Caitanya and His associates enjoyed many transcendental pastimes here.

Chida-Dahi Mahotsav remembers how the Lord mercifully reciprocated with His devotees by arranging, through Nityananda Prabhu and Raghunatha dasa, to provide an ecstatic feast of yogurt and chipped rice, along with various other nectar foodstuffs.

Read more about these pastimes in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Chapter 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī (1975 Edition).