Ekadasi Vratam The eleventh day of each fortnight, the fasting day of the Vaishnava calendar, kept twice a lunar month.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Ekadasi
- தமிழ்
- ஏகாதசி
- తెలుగు
- ఏకాదశి
- ಕನ್ನಡ
- ಏಕಾದಶಿ
- മലയാളം
- ഏകാദശി
- मराठी
- शुद्ध एकादशी
- नेपाली
- एकादशी
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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
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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 eleventh day of each fortnight, the fasting day of the Vaishnava calendar, kept twice a lunar month. The vow is Vishnu's: no grain of any kind passes the lips, the day is spent in reading and in the temple, and the night is often kept awake. There are twenty-four of them in an ordinary year and twenty-six when a month is intercalated.
- 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 Ekadasi tithi at sunrise: the first of the two days when it holds two sunrises (the second is the Vaishnava day), the next day when the Ekadasi began inside the arunodaya and the Dasami therefore pierced it, and the day it ran on when it holds neither sunrise. The fast is broken at the parana, in the window the almanac gives after sunrise on the Dwadasi, which is usually the first quarter of the day and must not run past the Dwadasi itself.
The fast
No rice and no grain of any kind; many keep it on fruit, milk and water alone, and the strictest keep it without water. It is broken at the parana with rice or with the tulsi theertham.
Where the regions differ
Vaishnava and smarta almanacs can put the same Ekadasi a day apart, because a smarta household takes the tithi at sunrise and a Vaishnava one waits for the tithi to be free of the tenth; ask which your family follows. The north gives each of the twenty-four its own name.
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.