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When is Shravana Putrada Ekadashi 2027?

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi 2027 is on Thursday, 12 August. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 13 August, 14:01 to 16:38 in Jodhpur.

Also called Pavitra Ekadashi, Pavitropana Ekadashi, Shravan 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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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 Jodhpur

The date in Jodhpur

Thursday, 12 August 2027

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi 2027 timings in Jodhpur
TimingJodhpurWhat it is
Parana (breaking the fast), 13 Aug 202714:01 to 16:38Hari Vasara runs past the morning, so parana is kept after madhyahna (midday), in the afternoon window.

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Shukla paksha tithi 11 of Shravana 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
Shravana (amanta)
Tithi begins
12 Aug, 00:59
Tithi ends
13 Aug, 03:00
Decided at
Sunrise
Sunrise in Jodhpur
12 Aug, 06:08

Sunrise in Jodhpur falls at 06:08 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.

Shukla paksha · Shravana

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi 2027: Smarta and Vaishnava dates

Listed here (Smarta, the sunrise rule)
Thursday, 12 August 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
Thursday, 12 August 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 Thursday, 12 August 2027 (12 Aug, 04:32) is already inside Ekadashi, not Dashami.

Every day above is computed for Jodhpur 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

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi vrat katha and significance

Also known as Pavitra Ekadashi.

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi is the bright-half Ekadashi of Shravana, one of two Putrada ("giver of a son") Ekadashis — the other is in Pausha. Couples hoping for a child have traditionally kept it, and it is kept today as a prayer for the wellbeing of children. In parts of the South and among Vaishnavas it is Pavitra (or Pavitropana) Ekadashi, when a sacred thread is offered to the deity.

The katha

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

King Mahijit of Mahishmati ruled justly and cared for his people, yet he had no son, and the absence weighed on him. His ministers and the elders of the city resolved to find the reason and went into the forest to seek out a sage.

They came to the great ascetic Lomasha, who could see across lifetimes. Lomasha told them that in a past life the king had been a poor merchant. Travelling in the heat one Dwadashi, thirsty and tired, he had reached a pond where a cow and her calf were drinking, and he had driven them away to drink first. That act of unkindness was what stood between him and a son.

The remedy, Lomasha said, was for the king's subjects to keep the Ekadashi of the bright half of Shravana together, and to give its merit to their king.

The people did so with devotion, staying awake through the night and offering the merit to Mahijit on Dwadashi. The Purana says the queen conceived soon after and in time bore a son who became a worthy heir. Krishna tells Yudhishthira that this is why the day is called 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.

All 26 · Jodhpur

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

Muhurat · Jodhpur

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi muhurat

Shravana 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 JodhpurWhat it is
Abhijit Muhurat 12:16 to 13:09 Auspicious
Brahma Muhurat 04:41 to 05:25 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 Jodhpur
Rahu Kaal 14:21 to 16:00
Yamaganda Kaal 06:08 to 07:47
Durmuhurta First 10:31 to 11:23
Durmuhurta Second 15:46 to 16:39

Every window above is computed for Jodhpur on Thursday, 12 August 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.

Shravana 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 Friday, 16 August 2024 past
2025 Tuesday, 5 August 2025 past
2026 Sunday, 23 August 2026 past
2027 Thursday, 12 August 2027 upcoming
2028 Tuesday, 1 August 2028 upcoming

Every row is computed for Jodhpur 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 Shravana Putrada Ekadashi?

Thursday, 12 August 2027. It is Ekadashi of Shukla paksha in Shravana, and that tithi runs from 12 Aug, 00:59 to 13 Aug, 03:00.

Why does another calendar give a different Shravana 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 Shravana Putrada Ekadashi observed?

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi is the bright-half Ekadashi of Shravana, one of two Putrada ("giver of a son") Ekadashis — the other is in Pausha. Couples hoping for a child have traditionally kept it, and it is kept today as a prayer for the wellbeing of children. In parts of the South and among Vaishnavas it is Pavitra (or Pavitropana) Ekadashi, when a sacred thread is offered to the deity.

Where does the Shravana 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 Shravana Putrada Ekadashi on a different day for Smarta and Vaishnava (ISKCON)?

Not this year — both keep Thursday, 12 August 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, and Ekadashi already holds that day's arunodaya.