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Shukla paksha · Magha · amanta reckoning
Wed, 17 Feb
Jaya Ekadashi 2027 is on Wednesday, 17 February. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 18 February, 6:57 AM to 9:12 AM in New Delhi.
2028: Monday, 7 February 2028
Parana (breaking the fast), 18 Feb 2027
6:57 AM – 9:12 AM
Also called Bhaimi Ekadashi, Bhami 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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Wednesday, 17 February 2027
| Timing | New Delhi | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Parana (breaking the fast), 18 Feb 2027 | 6:57 AM to 9:12 AM | The window is the first fifth of the daylight (pratahkala). |
Jaya Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Shukla paksha tithi 11 of Magha 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.
Sunrise in New Delhi falls at 6:57 AM 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.
Every day above is computed for New Delhi 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.
Also known as Bhami, Bhaimi Ekadashi.
Jaya Ekadashi is the bright-half Ekadashi of Magha, a few days after Basant Panchami. Jaya means "victory", and the day is kept for Vishnu with the belief, carried by its katha, that it frees the keeper from a degraded state of being. It is also called Bhaimi (or Bhami) Ekadashi, and the following day is kept as Bhishma Dwadashi.
Retold in brief from the Bhavishyottara Purana, in Krishna's Ekadashi-mahatmya to Yudhishthira (some Hindi vrat-katha books place it in the Padma Purana).
In Indra's court in the Nandana garden, the gandharva Malyavan sang and the apsara Pushpavati danced, and the two fell so completely in love that during one performance they could think only of each other. Malyavan's voice faltered and Pushpavati lost her step.
Indra saw it as contempt for the gathering and cursed them both to become pishachas — restless, miserable spirits — and to live on the earth. They found themselves on a freezing slope of the Himalaya, unable to eat, rest or find any comfort, suffering through day and night.
It happened to be the Ekadashi of the bright half of Magha. That day they ate nothing but a little fruit, sheltered under a peepal tree, and were too cold and wretched to sleep at all that night. Without knowing it, they had kept the Jaya Ekadashi fast and its night vigil.
On Dwadashi morning the curse fell away and they took back their own radiant forms. When they returned to heaven, Indra asked in astonishment how they had been freed, and they told him: by the grace of Vishnu and the Jaya Ekadashi. Krishna tells Yudhishthira that whoever keeps this fast need not fear such a fall.
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.
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
Jaya Ekadashi, the bright-half Ekadashi of Magha, is kept for Vishnu as a day of victory: its katha tells of a celestial couple freed from a curse by keeping it. In New Delhi it falls on Wednesday, 17 February 2027: the fast runs from sunrise to parana on Dwadashi, 18 Feb, 6:57 AM to 9:12 AM, and that Dwadashi is Bhishma Dwadashi. It is also called Bhaimi Ekadashi.
| Muhurat | Time in New Delhi | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Parana: the time to break the fast | 18 Feb, 6:57 AM to 9:12 AMThe morning of Dwadashi (the first fifth of the day), Hari Vasara having ended overnight. | The window on Dwadashi, the morning after the fast, in which Jaya Ekadashi is completed. It opens once Hari Vasara is over and normally closes with the first part of the morning; when Hari Vasara runs late it moves past midday, and it never runs beyond the end of Dwadashi. The time shown is computed for New Delhi. |
| Hari Vasara ends | 10:46 PMThe end of the first quarter of Dwadashi; the fast is never broken inside it. | Hari Vasara is the first quarter of Dwadashi. The fast is not broken inside it, even when it is already morning, so its end in New Delhi is the earliest moment parana can begin. |
| Brahma Muhurta | 5:15 AM to 6:06 AMThe 14th of the night's fifteen muhurtas, ending one muhurta before sunrise. | The hour before dawn on the Ekadashi day, the traditional time to wake, bathe and take the sankalp of the fast. |
| Sunrise | 6:57 AMThe upper edge of the Sun on the horizon, with refraction. | The fast is counted from sunrise on Ekadashi to parana on Dwadashi, and the morning puja begins after it. |
| Auspicious choghadiya (day) |
| The day's Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Chal periods. Families who cannot worship at dawn choose one of them for the main puja. |
| Pradosh Kaal: the evening lamps | 6:12 PM to 8:45 PMFrom sunset for three night muhurtas (a fifth of the night). | The evening after sunset, when lamps are lit before Vishnu and beside the tulsi and the aarti is sung again. |
| Nishita Kaal: the night vigil | 18 Feb, 12:09 AM to 1:00 AMThe 8th of the night's fifteen muhurtas, around the middle of the night. | The middle of the night, the heart of the jagran. Those who keep the night awake give this part of it to kirtan and japa. |
| Rahu Kaal (to avoid)Kept clear of | 12:35 PM to 1:59 PMRahu's eighth of the daylight, fixed by the weekday: a puja, a purchase or a journey is not begun in it. | The weekday's Rahu Kaal on the Ekadashi day in New Delhi. Many families avoid beginning the sankalp or the main puja inside it; it does not change the fast itself or the parana window. |
| Window | Time in New Delhi | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Amrit Kaal | 6:01 PM to 7:29 PM | Most Auspicious |
| Brahma Muhurat | 5:15 AM to 6:06 AM | Auspicious |
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.
| Window | Time in New Delhi |
|---|---|
| Rahu Kaal | 12:35 PM to 1:59 PM |
| Yamaganda Kaal | 8:22 AM to 9:46 AM |
| Durmuhurta First | 12:12 PM to 12:57 PM |
| Varjyam | 9:17 AM to 10:44 AM |
Every time above is computed for New Delhi around Wednesday, 17 February 2027, from the sunrise, sunset and the positions of the Sun and Moon for this city. The Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise, so a window whose clock time falls after midnight still belongs to the evening before; a time on another date carries that date.
Every Ekadashi is kept the same way: one sattvic meal on Dashami, the sankalp at dawn, Vishnu puja with tulsi, the katha and aarti, lamps at dusk, the night vigil and parana on Dwadashi. Those steps are in the Ekadashi vrat vidhi. Below are the steps Jaya Ekadashi adds or words its own way.
Sit before the altar, hold a little water and a flower in your right hand and resolve to keep the vrat: say your name, that you are keeping Jaya Ekadashi for Vishnu, and how you will fast, whether without water, on water alone, on fruit or with one phalahar meal. Then let the water fall. The Ekadashi sankalpa verse in the mantra section can be said here.
Read or listen to the Jaya Ekadashi vrat katha below, and the Vishnu Sahasranama or a chapter of the Gita if you can. Then sing Om Jai Jagdish Hare with a ghee lamp or camphor, and ask pardon for any mistake made in the puja.
The day after Jaya is Bhishma Dwadashi, and it was Bhishma, by the Mahabharata's account, who taught Yudhishthira the thousand names of Vishnu from his bed of arrows. Many read the Vishnu Sahasranama on Jaya Ekadashi, opening with the Shuklambaradharam verse.
Next morning, Bhishma Dwadashi, bathe, worship Vishnu briefly and, as many families do, offer water in Bhishma's memory. Give food or a gift to someone in need, then break the fast inside the parana window with a tulsi leaf and water, saying the parana verse, and after it a simple sattvic meal.
The puja samagri every Ekadashi uses (an image of Vishnu, tulsi picked on Dashami, a ghee lamp, yellow flowers, panchamrit, Ganga jal and the rest) is in the Ekadashi samagri list. For Jaya Ekadashi, add:
The verses every Ekadashi uses, from the dhyana and sankalpa verses to the parana verse, and the Om Jai Jagdish Hare aarti are in the Ekadashi guide's mantras and aarti. Jaya Ekadashi's own:
शुक्लाम्बरधरं विष्णुं शशिवर्णं चतुर्भुजम् ।
प्रसन्नवदनं ध्यायेत् सर्वविघ्नोपशान्तये ॥
Shuklambaradharam Vishnum shashivarnam chaturbhujam
Prasanna-vadanam dhyayet sarva-vighnopashantaye
Meaning: Meditate on the four-armed Vishnu, clothed in white, bright as the moon, with a gracious face, so that every obstacle is calmed.
When and how: Once before reading the Vishnu Sahasranama or beginning any part of the puja.
Two celestial performers, cursed for a moment's distraction, were sent to wander a freezing Himalayan slope as wretched spirits, and keeping this day without knowing it was enough to restore them. That makes it a day for anyone who feels they have fallen below themselves, through a habit, a lapse or a loss of nerve: the fast and a night of kirtan are offered as a way back. Krishna's promise in the katha is that whoever keeps it need not fear such a fall.
It sits in a run of Magha observances: Bhishma Ashtami, the day Bhishma gave up his body, comes a few days before it, Bhishma Dwadashi the day after, and the Magh Purnima bath, when the kalpavasis at Prayagraj complete their month, a few days later. Many read or hear the thousand names of Vishnu on this day, the hymn Bhishma taught from his bed of arrows.
Read the thousand names of Vishnu once in the day, beginning with Shuklambaradharam; it joins Jaya Ekadashi to Bhishma Dwadashi, since Bhishma taught them.
On this day the cursed pair of the katha ate only a little fruit. Keeping a fruit fast, if a complete one is too hard, is in the spirit of the day.
Malyavan and Pushpavati were a singer and a dancer whose attention wandered. Sing bhajans or kirtan to Vishnu in the evening with your whole mind on them.
On Bhishma Dwadashi morning, before parana, many families offer water in memory of Bhishma pitamah, who had no children of his own to offer it.
Jaya falls in Magha, the month of holy bathing; those at the Magh Mela bathe at the Sangam, and others add a few drops of Ganga jal to their morning bath.
Jaya means victory, and its katha is about rising out of a fallen state; resolving to give up one habit that pulls you down, from this Ekadashi on, is in keeping with it.
What may be eaten on any Ekadashi, from fruit and sabudana to samak rice and the parana meal, is in the Ekadashi food list.
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.
| Year | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Tuesday, 20 February 2024 | past |
| 2025 | Saturday, 8 February 2025 | past |
| 2026This year | Thursday, 29 January 2026 | past |
| 2027 | Wednesday, 17 February 2027 | upcoming |
| 2028 | Monday, 7 February 2028 | upcoming |
Every row is computed for New Delhi 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.
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.
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.
In New Delhi, Jaya Ekadashi falls on Wednesday, 17 February 2027, and Ekadashi tithi runs 8:19 PM (16 Feb) to 5:32 PM. It is the Ekadashi of the bright half of Magha, the same month in every calendar, and the day after it is Bhishma Dwadashi.
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.
Jaya Ekadashi is the bright-half Ekadashi of Magha, a few days after Basant Panchami. Jaya means "victory", and the day is kept for Vishnu with the belief, carried by its katha, that it frees the keeper from a degraded state of being. It is also called Bhaimi (or Bhami) Ekadashi, and the following day is kept as Bhishma Dwadashi.
It is told in the Bhavishyottara Purana, in Krishna's Ekadashi-mahatmya to Yudhishthira (some Hindi vrat-katha books place it in the Padma Purana). The katha is retold in full above.
Not this year — both keep Wednesday, 17 February 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, and Ekadashi already holds that day's arunodaya.
In New Delhi, the fast is broken on Bhishma Dwadashi within 18 Feb, 6:57 AM to 9:12 AM, once Hari Vasara has passed (10:46 PM). Many families offer water in Bhishma's memory and give food to someone in need just before the parana.
In Indra's court the gandharva Malyavan and the apsara Pushpavati fell so deeply in love that their song and dance faltered. Indra cursed them to live as pishachas on the earth, and they found themselves on a freezing slope of the Himalaya. It happened to be Magha Shukla Ekadashi: they ate only a little fruit, sheltered under a peepal and were too cold to sleep, and so kept the Jaya fast and vigil unknowingly. On Dwadashi the curse fell away. The full katha is above.
Jaya means victory. The katha says the fast lifted Malyavan and Pushpavati out of the state of pishachas, so the day is kept for Vishnu with the belief that it frees the keeper from a fallen state, and the Purana adds that whoever keeps it need not fear such a fall. Many keep it as a day of victory over their own failings.
Bhaimi, or Bhami, Ekadashi is another name for Jaya Ekadashi, the bright-half Ekadashi of Magha; Gaudiya Vaishnava calendars list it under that name. It is the same fast on the same day, with the same katha, and its Dwadashi is Bhishma Dwadashi.
It is the Dwadashi of the bright half of Magha, kept in memory of Bhishma, the grandsire of the Mahabharata, who lay on a bed of arrows waiting for the Sun's northward turn and taught Yudhishthira the thousand names of Vishnu. Families offer water in his memory and read the Vishnu Sahasranama, and the Jaya fast is broken on this day.
Eat a light meal on Dashami. On Ekadashi bathe early, take the sankalp, worship Vishnu with tulsi, yellow flowers, fruit and a ghee lamp, read the Jaya katha and, if you can, the Vishnu Sahasranama. Keep a fruit or water fast, sing bhajans in the evening and keep part of the night awake. On Bhishma Dwadashi give food or water, then break the fast in the parana window.
Om Jai Jagdish Hare, printed in full above, after the morning puja and again with the evening lamps. Since the katha's gandharva and apsara were singers and dancers, many families make the evening a proper kirtan, with the Ekadashi Mata aarti from their vrat book after the katha.
In Magha, on the Ekadashi of the bright fortnight, a few days after Basant Panchami. On the Gregorian calendar it falls between late January and late February; the date for New Delhi is Wednesday, 17 February 2027.
The Bhavishyottara Purana says the fast freed a cursed couple and that its keeper need not fear a fall into a lower state. Those are the tradition's words, kept with faith, not promises of a result. What the day reliably gives is a day of restraint, the thousand names of Vishnu and a gift to someone in need.
Yes. Jaya falls inside Magha, when pilgrims and kalpavasis live by the Sangam for the month, and for them it is one of the month's great bathing and fasting days. Those at home keep the same vrat, often adding a few drops of Ganga jal to the morning bath.
No rice, wheat, barley or any other grain, no dal or beans, no onion or garlic, and no meat, eggs or alcohol from Dashami to the parana. Common salt is replaced by rock salt. Fruit, milk, makhana, sweet potato and, where custom allows, kuttu or singhara are what the fast is kept on.
