Gita Jayanti · Mokshada Ekadashi Festival The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Margashirsha, held to be the day Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna at Kurukshetra.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Gita Jayanti · Mokshada Ekadashi
- हिन्दी
- गीता जयंती · मोक्षदा 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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What the day is
The Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Margashirsha, held to be the day Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna at Kurukshetra. The Gita is read from end to end, Kurukshetra keeps a week-long festival, and the Ekadashi itself is called Mokshada, the one that gives release, and is kept for the ancestors as well.
- Deity
- Krishna, Arjuna
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Margashirsha Shukla Ekadashi at sunrise; the reading fills the day and the parana is the next morning.
The fast
The ordinary Ekadashi fast without rice or grain, broken at the parana on the Dwadashi.
Where the regions differ
Kurukshetra and the Gita mandirs keep it hardest; the south marks the same Ekadashi within the Dhanur masa and often close to Vaikunta Ekadasi.
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.