Aja Ekadasi
Ajā Ekādaśī
Tuesday, August 25, 1981
Bengaluru, India
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*Labelled Bhādrapada kṛṣṇa in amānta. Āśvina kṛṣṇa under pūrṇimānta →
From the pañchāṅga
- Tue · 25 Aug · 2:28 AM
- Wed · 26 Aug · 12:39 AM
- Wed · 26 Aug · 12:39 AM
- Tue
- 25 Aug
- 2:28 AM
- Wed
- 26 Aug
- 12:39 AM
- Wed
- 26 Aug
- 12:39 AM
The fast
- at sunrise
- Tue · 25 Aug · 6:07 AM
- pāraṇa window
- Wed · 26 Aug · 6:08 AM – 9:14 AM
- at sunrise
- Tue
- 25 Aug
- 6:07 AM
- pāraṇa window
- Wed
- 26 Aug
- 6:08 AM – 9:14 AM
Many keep a stricter fast from sunset the evening before.
The 3-Day Observance Arc
Ekādaśī is a three-day discipline. Preparation begins on Daśamī.
Daśamī · Day of Preparation (Samyama)
Monday, 24 August 1981
Eat a single light sattvic meal before sunset. Avoid heavy grains, lentils, or eating late at night. Take a holy bath and resolve for the fast.
Ekādaśī · Day of Fast & Vigil (Vrata)
Tuesday, August 25, 1981 · Begins 6:07 AM (Sunrise)
Complete fast from sunrise to sunrise (water-only, fruits, or Nirjala as per capacity). Continuous prayer, chanting, and night vigil (Jāgaraṇa).
Dvādaśī · Breaking the Fast (Pāraṇā)
Wednesday, 26 August 1981 · Pāraṇā Window: 6:08 AM – 9:14 AM
Morning bath, offer charity (dāna) to the needy or Brahmins, and break the fast strictly within the pāraṇā window before Dvādaśī ends.
Celestial Coordinates & Muhūrtas
3:28 PM – 5:01 PM
9:14 AM – 10:48 AM
11:57 AM – 12:45 PM
Bearings indicate horizon degrees. Rāhu and Yamagaṇḍa are avoided for new auspicious beginnings; Abhijit is the midday victory window.
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