Ashadhi Ekadashi · Pandharpur wari Vratam The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Ashadh, the largest day of the Varkari year.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Ashadhi Ekadashi · Pandharpur wari
- हिन्दी
- आषाढी एकादशी
- मराठी
- आषाढी एकादशी · देवशयनी · पंढरपूर वारी
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When it falls next
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What the day is
The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Ashadh, the largest day of the Varkari year. The palkhis of Dnyaneshwar from Alandi and of Tukaram from Dehu walk for about three weeks to Pandharpur and reach it for this day, a few hundred thousand pilgrims in dindis with the tal and the veena, singing the abhangas of the sants and calling on Vitthal. It is also Devshayani: Vishnu lies down for the four months of chaturmas, and no wedding is held until he wakes at Kartiki Ekadashi.
- Deity
- Vitthal, Rukmini, Vishnu
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
The hour
The rule in words
Ashadh shuddha Ekadashi at sunrise, the householder taking the first of the two days when the tithi holds two sunrises and the warkari the day the panchang prints; the parana is the next morning.
The fast
The full Ekadashi fast without grain, which Varkari households keep twice a lunar month through the year. It is broken at the parana on the Dwadashi, at Pandharpur with the temple prasad for those who walked.
Where the regions differ
Maharashtra keeps it as the wari; the rest of India keeps the same Ekadashi as Devshayani or Padma Ekadashi and dates the chaturmas bar on weddings from it. Traditions vary in an adhika Ashadh year on which of the two Ekadashis the four months begin at.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
Vivaha, the marriage itself. The grading is the Tamil almanac one: nine wedding months, the seven wedding tithis, the marriage stars, and Mithunam, Kanni and Thulam as the best lagnas. Tuesday and Saturday rule a day out, as no Tamil almanac prints a wedding muhurtham on either. Confirm the chosen day and hour with the family astrologer.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.