The week-long Datta Jayanti Celebration at Maniknagar is actually divided into two portions; the first three days of the Utsav, i.e. from Margasheersha Shuddha Ekadashi (Prabhu Punyatithi) to Dakshina Darbar (Margasheersha Shuddha Trayodashi) relate to the anniversary of Shri Prabhu’s Maha Samadhi (Punyatithi Utsav) and the later half, i.e. from Guru Poojan (Margasheersha Shuddha Chaturdashi) to Darbar (Margasheersha Vadya Pratipada) is the birth anniversary celebration (Janmotsav).

Shri Prabhu, on the preceding day of his Maha-Samadhi spent the whole day distributing alms (which, in Urdu is called ‘Khairaat’ and in Sanskrit ‘Dakshina’) to the poor, the needy, the fakirs, the Brahmins and the Gosais. The Dakshina Darbar is symbolic of this last congregation that Shri Prabhu had and gave audience to the people. To commemorate Shri Prabhu’s Punyatithi Shri Maharaj ji holds the Dakshina Darbar in the late afternoon of this day and hundreds of Fakirs, Gosais and Brahmins receive Dakshina or Khairaat from him.