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When is Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027?

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027 is on Tuesday, 19 January. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 20 January, 06:03 to 08:52 in Sydney.

Also called Paush Putrada Ekadashi, Pausa Putrada Ekadashi. Those are the same observance and the same date, so they share this page rather than competing with it from a second URL.

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Outside India

The whole table below is recomputed for the city you pick. That is not cosmetic: an observance decided at moonrise, such as Karwa Chauth, can genuinely fall on a different day in two cities, and the moment the fast ends differs by more than an hour across India.

Computed for Sydney

The date in Sydney

Tuesday, 19 January 2027

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027 timings in Sydney
TimingSydneyWhat it is
Parana (breaking the fast), 20 Jan 202706:03 to 08:52The window is the first fifth of the daylight (pratahkala).

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Shukla paksha tithi 11 of Pausha in the amanta reckoning, and the Gregorian day it lands on moves by up to a month between years because twelve lunations fall about eleven days short of a solar year.

Tithi
Ekadashi, Shukla paksha
Lunar month
Pausha (amanta)
Tithi begins
18 Jan, 15:58
Tithi ends
19 Jan, 13:20
Decided at
Sunrise
Sunrise in Sydney
19 Jan, 06:02

Sunrise in Sydney falls at 06:02 on that day, and that is the instant the tithi has to be running at for the day to carry the observance. It is computed for this city rather than assumed, because it is what decides the date.

The two instants above are the astronomy and are not in dispute. The day is an interpretation of them: this observance is decided at sunrise, so it belongs to the day whose sunrise the tithi carries — not simply to the day the tithi begins.

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Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027: Smarta and Vaishnava dates

Listed here (Smarta, the sunrise rule)
Tuesday, 19 January 2027 — The fast belongs to the day whose sunrise carries Ekadashi — the day AstroSage lists and the one this page leads with.
Vaishnava (ISKCON), the arunodaya rule
Tuesday, 19 January 2027 — The same day this year. The Vaishnava rule reads the tithi at arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise, rather than at sunrise; the arunodaya of Tuesday, 19 January 2027 (19 Jan, 04:26) is already inside Ekadashi, not Dashami.

Every day above is computed for Sydney from the same tithi instants. ISKCON temples publish their own calendar for each city and also apply the Mahadvadashi rules, which can move a fast to Dwadashi in some years — where your temple's calendar differs, follow it.

Meaning and vrat katha

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi vrat katha and significance

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is the bright-half Ekadashi of Pausha, in late December or January — the second of the two Putrada ("giver of a son") Ekadashis, the other falling in Shravana. Couples hoping for a child have traditionally kept it, and it is kept today as a prayer for children's wellbeing. When it falls while the Sun is in Dhanu it is also Vaikuntha Ekadashi in South India; the page says so in the years it does.

The katha

Retold in brief from the Bhavishya Purana, in Krishna's Ekadashi-mahatmya to Yudhishthira.

King Suketuman ruled Bhadravati with his queen Shaibya. They had wealth, a loyal court and a peaceful kingdom, but no child, and the king brooded over who would offer the rites to his ancestors after him.

His sorrow grew until one day he rode alone into the forest without telling anyone. He wandered among the trees until he was exhausted and thirsty, and at last came to a lake covered in lotuses, on whose bank a gathering of sages were reciting the Vedas.

The king bowed to them and told them his trouble. The sages — the Vishvadevas, come to bathe in the lake — told him that the Ekadashi of the bright half of Pausha, called Putrada, was that very day, and that if he kept it he would be blessed with a son.

Suketuman kept the fast there and then, by the lake, and broke it on Dwadashi after bowing to the sages again. The Purana says that the queen conceived soon after he returned home, and that their son grew into a righteous heir. Krishna tells Yudhishthira that this is the reason the day is named Putrada.

How the fast is kept

  • The fast runs from sunrise on the Ekadashi day to parana on Dwadashi. Many families eat a single plain meal on Dashami, the evening before.
  • Grains and rice are left out on Ekadashi. Those who cannot keep a complete fast take fruit, milk or a phalahar meal; a waterless fast is kept only by those whose tradition and health allow it.
  • Vishnu is worshipped with tulsi leaves, a lamp and his names; reading or hearing the day's katha is part of the observance, and many stay awake for a part of the night in kirtan or japa.
  • Parana is on Dwadashi, after Hari Vasara — the first quarter of Dwadashi — has passed. The window for your city is computed above.

Fasting customs are described here as tradition, not as medical advice. Consult a doctor before fasting, particularly if you are pregnant, diabetic, elderly or on medication.

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Every Ekadashi and its next date

Twenty-four in an ordinary year, two more in a year with an adhika month. Each has its own page with its katha, parana and Smarta and Vaishnava dates.

The next Ekadashi and its parana · every Ekadashi of 2027 with tithi and parana times

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Pausha Putrada Ekadashi muhurat

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is decided at sunrise, which is an instant rather than a window, so there is no anchor window to intersect with the tithi. The generally auspicious windows of the day are below, and Abhijit is the one most commonly used where an observance names no muhurat of its own.

Auspicious windows that day

WindowTime in SydneyWhat it is
Abhijit Muhurat 12:37 to 13:33 Auspicious
Amrit Kaal 21:30 to 22:57 Most Auspicious
Brahma Muhurat 04:43 to 05:23 Auspicious

Windows usually worked around

These are the spans classical muhurta sets aside for beginnings. They are descriptions of a convention, not warnings: the observance is kept on its day regardless, and nothing here needs to be bought, corrected or remedied.

WindowTime in Sydney
Rahu Kaal 16:36 to 18:22
Yamaganda Kaal 09:34 to 11:19
Durmuhurta First 08:51 to 09:48
Varjyam 17:08 to 18:35
Varjyam (Second) 05:23 to 06:49

Every window above is computed for Sydney on Tuesday, 19 January 2027, from that day's sunrise, sunset and the following sunrise. The Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise, so a window whose clock time falls after midnight still belongs to the date named above rather than to the one the wall clock has turned over to.

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi across five years

Two years back, this year, and two ahead. Past years are kept rather than dropped so you can check the engine against a calendar you already have.

YearDateStatus
2024 Sunday, 21 January 2024 past
2025 Friday, 10 January 2025 past
2025 Wednesday, 31 December 2025 past
2026 none in 2026 — it falls in late December or January, so a calendar year can have two or none —
2027 Tuesday, 19 January 2027 upcoming
2028 Saturday, 8 January 2028 upcoming
2028 Wednesday, 27 December 2028 upcoming

Every row is computed for Sydney from the same ephemeris, not looked up. Sunrise decides which day a tithi names, and sunrise differs across India by more than an hour, so a date computed for Delhi can be a day out elsewhere.

Why calendars disagree about this date

There is no single authority that settles a Hindu festival date, and the divergence is genuine rather than sloppy. Three causes account for almost all of it.

  1. A tithi rarely starts at sunrise. One that is running at the deciding moment on two days — or on none — is claimed by both days under different rules.
  2. Month reckoning. North India runs purnimanta, the south and west amanta. The same dark fortnight carries different month names in the two, so an observance defined as "krishna X of month Y" can land a full lunation apart.
  3. Which moment decides. Most vratas belong to the day whose sunrise carries the tithi, but not all: this one is decided at sunrise. Almanacs that apply the sunrise rule to everything move several festivals by a day.

So this page shows its working. If your pandit or your family almanac gives a different day, the instants above will usually show you exactly why — and that is more useful than a date asserted without one.

Common questions

When is Pausha Putrada Ekadashi?

Tuesday, 19 January 2027. It is Ekadashi of Shukla paksha in Pausha, and that tithi runs from 18 Jan, 15:58 to 19 Jan, 13:20.

Why does another calendar give a different Pausha Putrada Ekadashi date?

Three honest reasons. The tithi can be running at the deciding moment on two days or on none. North India reckons the month purnimanta and the south and west amanta, which names the same krishna fortnight differently. And almanacs differ on which moment of the day decides an observance. The instants above are the astronomy; the day is an interpretation of them.

Why is Pausha Putrada Ekadashi observed?

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is the bright-half Ekadashi of Pausha, in late December or January — the second of the two Putrada ("giver of a son") Ekadashis, the other falling in Shravana. Couples hoping for a child have traditionally kept it, and it is kept today as a prayer for children's wellbeing. When it falls while the Sun is in Dhanu it is also Vaikuntha Ekadashi in South India; the page says so in the years it does.

Where does the Pausha Putrada Ekadashi vrat katha come from?

It is told in the Bhavishya Purana, in Krishna's Ekadashi-mahatmya to Yudhishthira. The katha is retold in full above.

Is Pausha Putrada Ekadashi on a different day for Smarta and Vaishnava (ISKCON)?

Not this year — both keep Tuesday, 19 January 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, and Ekadashi already holds that day's arunodaya.