Vratam Vishnu, Tulsi
Devuthani Ekadashi · Chaturmas ends
The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Kartika, on which Vishnu is held to wake after the four months of sleep.
Devuthani Ekadashi · Chaturmas ends 2026 falls on Saturday, 21 November, computed for Chennai.
Latitude, longitude and time zone 13.08, 80.27
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place.
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A tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
North India calendar, computed for Chennai
- Saturday, 21 November 2026
- Wednesday, 10 November 2027
- Saturday, 28 October 2028
Where Devuthani Ekadashi · Chaturmas ends falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2026: 21 Nov
- 2027: 10 Nov, 11 days earlier
- 2028: 28 Oct, 12 days earlier
The dates, year by year
North India calendar, computed for Chennai
What the day is
The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Kartika, on which Vishnu is held to wake after the four months of sleep. Chaturmas ends with it and the marriage season opens: from this day weddings, thread ceremonies and housewarmings are held again. The courtyard is drawn with the feet of the waking god and the family calls him awake at dusk.
- Deity
- Vishnu, Tulsi
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
Significance
For the four months of the rains Vishnu is held to sleep on the serpent Shesha in the ocean of milk, and while he sleeps no marriage, thread ceremony or housewarming is begun, because the god who blesses them is not awake to do it. On this Ekadashi the household wakes him as one would a child: the women draw his feet in rice paste and geru on the floor, cover the new produce of the season under a soop, and at dusk beat the soop or a thali and sing the old waking songs until he is held to have risen. It is also the first day the new sugar cane may be cut and eaten in much of the north, and the water chestnut, the sweet potato and the ber of early winter are offered before anyone tastes them. Families keep it as the hinge of the year: the rains are over, the rabi is sown, and from the next day the wedding drums will be heard again.
How it is kept
The puja as a household does it, in order. Tick each step as it is done.
Devuthani Ekadashi · Chaturmas ends: how it is kept
Keep ready
- rice paste and geru for the drawing
- a soop or a large thali
- sugar cane, singhara, sweet potato, ber, amla and radish
- tulsi leaves picked the day before
- yellow flowers, roli and rice
- a Shaligram or a picture of Vishnu
- clay lamps and ghee
- the Vishnu Sahasranama
The steps
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What is cooked
The fast is kept on fruit, milk and the phalahar of kuttu, singhara flour or sabudana, and the offering is the new produce of the season, sugar cane, singhara, sweet potato, ber and amla, with kheer or a jaggery sweet. Maharashtra keeps the Kartiki fast on sabudana khichdi, rajgira and sweet potato, and the Tamil and Telugu temples give the Dwadashi prasadam at the parana.
The hour
Clock times for Saturday, 21 November 2026 at Chennai
Shukla Ekadashi at sunrise, with the dasami-viddha and kshaya cases settled as for every Ekadashi; the waking is done in the evening and the parana is the next morning.
The main rite. The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Kartik: the fast runs from sunrise, the god is woken at dusk, and the fast is broken at the parana on the Dwadashi morning, within the hours the almanac gives.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 06:10 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
Sunrise 06:10, sunset 17:39, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.
The day itself
| What | When | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tithi | Shukla Ekadasi from previous day 07:16 until 06:32 | then Shukla Dwadasi until next day 04:57 |
| Nakshatra | Uttara Bhadrapada until 06:51 | then Revati until next day 05:55 |
| Rahu kaal | 09:02 to 10:29 (1 h 26 min) | the eighth of the daylight left alone for a beginning |
| Yamaganda | 13:21 to 14:47 (1 h 26 min) | the eighth ruled by Yama, also avoided |
| Gulika | 06:10 to 07:36 (1 h 26 min) | the eighth of Saturn’s son; what is done in it is said to repeat |
| Abhijit | 11:32 to 12:18 (0 h 46 min) | the midday muhurta, good for most things |
| Moonrise | 14:50 | moonset next day 03:35 |
For Saturday, 21 November 2026 at Chennai. A time marked "previous day" or "next day" is on the clock of that day.
The fast
The ordinary Ekadashi fast without rice or grain, broken at the parana. Sugar cane, water chestnut and the first of the winter fruit are offered.
What is avoided
Rice and grain are not eaten by those keeping the Ekadashi, and no tulsi leaf is plucked on the day. The new sugar cane is not cut or eaten before the god has been woken.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
Where the regions differ
It is called Prabodhini or Devuthani in the north, Uthana Dwadashi in Karnataka, and the Tulsi Vivah follows it. Every part of India treats it as the reopening of the wedding season, so it is the date to know when fixing a marriage.
In other regions
- Tamil Nadu
- The Tamil Vaishnava temples keep the same Ekadashi as Kaisika Ekadasi, reading the Kaisika Puranam, the story of the singer Nampaduvan, at Srirangam and Thirukkurungudi.
- Telugu
- The Telugu country keeps the Ekadashi as Uttana Ekadasi and the next day as Ksheerabdi Dwadasi, with the tulsi and the amla branch worshipped together.
- Kannada
- Karnataka keeps the Ekadashi fast and the next day as Uthana Dwadashi, the day the god is taken to have risen and the tulsi is worshipped.
- North India (the dates above)
- The Hindi belt keeps Devuthani or Dev Prabodhini Ekadashi with the soop and the waking songs, and the wedding bands of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar begin to play from the next day.
- Maharashtra
- Maharashtra keeps it as Kartiki Ekadashi, the second great wari of the year, to Pandharpur.
- Nepal
- Nepal keeps it as Haribodhini Ekadashi, with the great fair at Budhanilkantha, where the sleeping Vishnu lies in his tank, and the end of the chaturmas vows.
The dates above are the North India reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.
Where this day is kept
Nearest first from Chennai, with what is recorded about each.
Temples of Vishnu near you
Not recorded for this day in particular: the nearest temples of the day's own gods, for a reader whose own temple is not listed above.
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Venkatakrishnan (Parthasarathy) with the arrow scars on his face
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · The eight forms of Lakshmi in shrines on four floors, facing the sea
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Adhivyadhihara Bhaktha Anjaneyar, thirty-two feet tall from a single block of granite
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Neervanna Perumal below and Ranganathar on the hill, in four postures
Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.
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A temple is listed here only where the gazetteer's own line names this day, or where this day's own entry names the town, or where the day belongs to the ancestors or the nagas and the temple is recorded for that rite. Where neither table says anything, nothing is listed as kept for the day; where fewer than three are, the nearest temples of the day's own gods are added under a heading of their own.
Mantras
The prayers said with the day. Each opens with its words and meaning.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules for a puja held alongside, whose day the family chooses
Devuthani Ekadashi · Chaturmas ends's own date is set by the rule in "The hour" above, and no muhurtham moves it. For a wedding around it, whose day the family does choose, the finder below applies these rules.
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.
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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.