Jal Jhulani Ekadashi · Dol Gyaras Festival The Ekadashi on which the deity is carried out of the temple to the water and swung there, kept through Rajasthan and the Braj country.

English

Jal Jhulani Ekadashi · Dol Gyaras

हिन्दी

जल झूलनी एकादशी · डोल ग्यारस

राजस्थानी

जल झूलनी एकादशी · डोल ग्यारस

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1. Saturday, 11 September 2027
2. Wednesday, 30 August 2028
3. Tuesday, 18 September 2029

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Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.

The Ekadashi on which the deity is carried out of the temple to the water and swung there, kept through Rajasthan and the Braj country. Vishnu is held to turn over in his sleep halfway through the Chaturmas on this tithi, and the image is taken to a lake, a talab or a river in the evening, swung in a dola and brought back. Nathdwara takes Shrinathji out, Udaipur takes its images to Lake Pichola, and the same morning closes the Ramdevra mela, because this is the tithi of Baba Ramdev’s samadhi.

Deity

Vishnu, Krishna

Kind

Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.

Bhadrapada Shukla Ekadashi at sunrise, the Parivartini Ekadashi of the north’s list; the procession to the water is of the late afternoon and the evening.

Sunrise 05:58, sunset 18:13, 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 Ekadashi fast is kept as on any other, without rice or grain, and is broken on the Dwadashi morning.

Rajasthan, Braj and Madhya Pradesh keep the water procession; the rest of the country keeps the same day as Parivartini or Vamana Ekadashi without taking the deity out, and Bengal keeps no dola on it at all.

The dates above are the Rajasthan 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.

• Shrinathji Temple, Nathdwara 1,481 km
  Rajsamand, Rajasthan

  The entry for this day names Nathdwara, and it is a temple of Krishna. Nathdwara takes Shrinathji out, Udaipur takes its images to Lake Pichola, and the same morning closes the Ramdevra mela, because this is the tithi of Baba Ramdev’s samadhi.

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. Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.

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.