Varuthini Ekadasi
Varūthinī Ekādaśī
Thursday, April 14, 2072
Bengaluru, India
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*Labelled Vaiśākha kṛṣṇa in amānta. Jyeṣṭha kṛṣṇa under pūrṇimānta →
From the pañchāṅga
- Wed · 13 Apr · 8:31 AM
- Thu · 14 Apr · 11:05 AM
- Thu · 14 Apr · 11:05 AM
- Wed
- 13 Apr
- 8:31 AM
- Thu
- 14 Apr
- 11:05 AM
- Thu
- 14 Apr
- 11:05 AM
The tithi begins on Wednesday afternoon. At that day’s , is still prevailing: so the fast follows the next day, when reaches sunrise.
The fast
- at sunrise
- Thu · 14 Apr · 6:07 AM
- pāraṇa window
- Fri · 15 Apr · 6:06 AM – 9:13 AM
- at sunrise
- Thu
- 14 Apr
- 6:07 AM
- pāraṇa window
- Fri
- 15 Apr
- 6:06 AM – 9:13 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)
Wednesday, 13 April 2072
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)
Thursday, April 14, 2072 · 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)
Friday, 15 April 2072 · Pāraṇā Window: 6:06 AM – 9:13 AM
Morning bath, offer charity (dāna) to the needy or Brahmins, and break the fast strictly within the pāraṇā window before Dvādaśī ends.
Meṣa Saṅkrānti
The Sun enters Meṣa
Thursday, 14 April 2072
The Sun crosses at 4:32 AM, your local time
The Sun enters Meṣa (Aries), the first sign of the zodiac, and the solar year begins again. Across the south and east this is the solar New Year, Viṣu in Kerala, Puthāṇḍu in Tamil Nadu, Vaiśākhī in the Punjab, Poila Boishakh in Bengal, Bohag Bihu in Assam, one transit kept under many names.
What is done, In Kerala the first thing seen on waking is the Viṣukkaṇi, an arrangement of auspicious things laid out the night before; elsewhere the day is kept with bathing, charity, and the new-year feast.
Celestial Coordinates & Muhūrtas
1:52 PM – 3:26 PM
6:07 AM – 7:40 AM
11:55 AM – 12:43 PM
Bearings indicate horizon degrees. Rāhu and Yamagaṇḍa are avoided for new auspicious beginnings; Abhijit is the midday victory window.
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