Amalaki Ekadashi Vratam The Ekadashi of Phalguna Shukla.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Amalaki Ekadashi
- हिन्दी
- आमलकी एकादशी
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: 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
Looking for the calendar this day belongs to
This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The Ekadashi of Phalguna Shukla. Every one of the twenty-four Ekadashis of the year carries a name and a story of its own, and this one is the amla tree is worshipped and circled on it, since Vishnu is held to dwell in it; it falls in the Holi week. The vow underneath them is the same: a day without grain, given to Vishnu, with the night kept awake in the stricter houses.
- Deity
- 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
The Ekadashi tithi at sunrise. Where it holds two sunrises the householder fasts on the first and the sanyasi, the widow and the Vaishnava on the second; where it began inside the arunodaya, the 96 minutes before that sunrise, the day is dasami-viddha and the fast moves to the next one; and where it holds neither sunrise, having begun after one and ended before the next, the fast is kept on the day it ran and the Vaishnava Gauna Ekadashi is the day after. The fast is broken at the parana, in the window the almanac gives after sunrise on the Dwadashi; the parana must not be left until the Dwadashi has ended.
The fast
No grain of any kind, and no rice above all; the day is kept on fruit, milk, sabudana and singhare or kuttu flour, and the strictest keep it without water. Tulsi is offered to Vishnu but never picked on the day itself.
Where the regions differ
The north gives every Ekadashi its own name and quotes the dark-fortnight ones against the next month, because its month ends at the full moon; the south keeps the same days as the plain monthly Ekadasi. Smarta and Vaishnava households can differ by a day on which sunrise counts.
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.