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Krishna paksha · Ashadha · amanta reckoning
Thu, 29 Jul
Kamika Ekadashi 2027 is on Thursday, 29 July. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 30 July, 1:48 PM to 4:31 PM in New Delhi.
2028: Tuesday, 18 July 2028
Parana (breaking the fast), 30 Jul 2027
1:48 PM – 4:31 PM
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Thursday, 29 July 2027
| Timing | New Delhi | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Parana (breaking the fast), 30 Jul 2027 | 1:48 PM to 4:31 PM | Hari Vasara runs past the morning, so parana is kept after madhyahna (midday), in the afternoon window. |
Kamika Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Krishna paksha tithi 11 of Ashadha 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 5:40 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.
This year the tithi is skipped (kshaya). Ekadashi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches neither and the usual rule cannot pick a day. The observance is not cancelled: it is kept on the day the tithi runs through, which is the date above. Saying so matters — a page that printed the date alone would be implying a rule that did not actually apply this year.
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.
Kamika Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark (krishna) half of Shravana in the purnimanta reckoning used across North India, and of Ashadha in the amanta reckoning used in the south and west. It is the same night: the two calendars name the dark fortnight after different months.
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.
Kamika Ekadashi is the first Ekadashi of Chaturmas, in the dark fortnight of Shravana by the purnimanta reckoning — Ashadha Krishna in the amanta one. It is kept for Vishnu with particular emphasis on tulsi: offering its leaves, lighting a lamp before it and even looking on the plant are each described as meritorious, and lamps of ghee or sesame oil are lit through the evening.
Retold in brief from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, in the Ekadashi-mahatmya, where Bhishma tells it to Narada and Krishna to Yudhishthira.
A landowner of a village, quick to anger, fell into a quarrel with a brahmin over a small matter. Words turned into blows, and in his rage the landowner struck the brahmin so hard that he died.
Horrified at what he had done, the man tried to make amends and to perform the brahmin's last rites himself, but the village elders and the priests refused him. No one would eat with him or let him into a house of worship, and he lived as an outcast, unable to undo the act.
In his distress he went to a sage and asked whether any expiation was possible. The sage told him of the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight of Shravana, Kamika: keep it with complete devotion, he said, worship Vishnu with tulsi and lamps, and stay awake through the night in his remembrance.
The man did so. The Purana says that the weight of the killing was lifted from him, and that in a dream he was told he could rejoin his community; the brahmins accepted him again. Bhishma adds that no jewel or flower pleases Vishnu as much as a single tulsi leaf offered on this day.
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
Kamika Ekadashi, the first Ekadashi of Chaturmas, is kept for Vishnu with tulsi at the centre: a tulsi leaf on every offering and lamps of ghee or sesame oil lit before the plant. In New Delhi it falls on Thursday, 29 July 2027: the fast runs from sunrise to parana on Dwadashi, 30 Jul, 1:48 PM to 4:31 PM. It is the Ekadashi of Shravana Krishna in North India (Ashadha Krishna in the amanta calendar).
| Muhurat | Time in New Delhi | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Parana: the time to break the fast | 30 Jul, 1:48 PM to 4:31 PMHari Vasara runs past the morning, so parana waits until midday has passed: the aparahna. | The window on Dwadashi, the morning after the fast, in which Kamika 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 | 30 Jul, 10:30 AMThe 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 | 4:17 AM to 4:58 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 | 5:40 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 | 7:14 PM to 9:19 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 | 30 Jul, 12:06 AM to 12:48 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 | 2:09 PM to 3:51 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abhijit Muhurat | 12:00 PM to 12:54 PM | Auspicious |
| Amrit Kaal | 12:28 AM to 1:58 AM | Most Auspicious |
| Brahma Muhurat | 4:17 AM to 4:58 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 | 2:09 PM to 3:51 PM |
| Yamaganda Kaal | 5:40 AM to 7:22 AM |
| Durmuhurta First | 10:11 AM to 11:06 AM |
| Durmuhurta Second | 3:37 PM to 4:31 PM |
| Varjyam | 7:58 PM to 9:28 PM |
Every time above is computed for New Delhi around Thursday, 29 July 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 Kamika 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 Kamika 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.
Kamika is the tulsi's Ekadashi. Offer Vishnu the tulsi leaves picked on Dashami, one with every offering; then go to the tulsi plant, bow to it, light a ghee lamp before it and say the tulsi pranam. In the katha Bhishma says no jewel or flower pleases Vishnu as much as a single tulsi leaf offered on this day.
Read or listen to the Kamika 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.
At dusk light lamps of ghee or sesame oil before Vishnu and before the tulsi, and keep them burning through the evening, as the day's custom asks; sing the aarti again without plucking a single leaf.
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 Kamika 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. Kamika Ekadashi's own:
वृन्दायै तुलसीदेव्यै प्रियायै केशवस्य च ।
विष्णुभक्तिप्रदे देवि सत्यवत्यै नमो नमः ॥
Vrindayai Tulasi-devyai priyayai Keshavasya cha
Vishnu-bhakti-prade devi Satyavatyai namo namah
Meaning: Salutation again and again to Vrinda, the goddess Tulsi, dear to Keshava, giver of devotion to Vishnu, the truthful one.
When and how: Said at the tulsi plant while lighting its lamp at dusk; bow without plucking a leaf.
The practice it is known for is small and exact: a single tulsi leaf, offered with full attention rather than by the handful. It falls in Sawan, the monsoon month of Shiva's kanwar pilgrims, a few days before Sawan Shivratri, so the same week holds Vishnu's tulsi and the water carried to Shiva. The rains are the season for planting, and a tulsi sapling given to a neighbour, a school or a temple garden is the day's natural gift.
Its katha, from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, tells of a landowner who killed a brahmin in a moment's rage and could find no way back into his community until he kept this fast with tulsi and lamps; so the day is also kept for expiation of a grave wrong, and for the mastery of anger. Bhishma, telling it to Narada, says that no jewel or flower pleases Vishnu as much as a single tulsi leaf offered on this day.
Offer Vishnu a tulsi leaf with every offering of the day, picked on Dashami; by the katha's own words it pleases him more than any jewel.
Light a lamp of ghee or sesame oil before the tulsi at dusk and keep it burning through the evening, with the tulsi pranam.
If your home has no tulsi, bring one in today, the first Ekadashi of Chaturmas, and care for it through the four months to Dev Uthani, when Tulsi Vivah follows.
The katha's wrong began with rage over a small matter. Keep the day, and if you can the Chaturmas, free of harsh words; walk away from one quarrel.
The landowner of the katha could not undo his act but sought every way to atone. If you have harmed someone, apologise and repair what you can before parana.
Give a tulsi sapling to a neighbour, a temple or a school garden; the plant carries the day's merit into other homes.
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 | Wednesday, 31 July 2024 | past |
| 2025 | Monday, 21 July 2025 | past |
| 2026This year | Sunday, 9 August 2026 | past |
| 2027 | Thursday, 29 July 2027 | upcoming |
| 2028 | Tuesday, 18 July 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, Kamika Ekadashi falls on Thursday, 29 July 2027, and Ekadashi tithi runs 7:34 AM to 5:13 AM (30 Jul). It is the dark-fortnight Ekadashi of Shravana in North India (Ashadha Krishna in the amanta calendar), the first Ekadashi after Devshayani and so the first of Chaturmas.
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.
Ekadashi begins after one deciding moment and ends before the next this year, so it touches none — a kshaya tithi. The observance is not cancelled: it is kept on the day the tithi runs through, which is the day given above.
Kamika Ekadashi is the first Ekadashi of Chaturmas, in the dark fortnight of Shravana by the purnimanta reckoning — Ashadha Krishna in the amanta one. It is kept for Vishnu with particular emphasis on tulsi: offering its leaves, lighting a lamp before it and even looking on the plant are each described as meritorious, and lamps of ghee or sesame oil are lit through the evening.
It is told in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, in the Ekadashi-mahatmya, where Bhishma tells it to Narada and Krishna to Yudhishthira. The katha is retold in full above.
Yes, this year they differ: the Smarta date is Thursday, 29 July 2027 and the Vaishnava (ISKCON) date is Friday, 30 July 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, 96 minutes before sunrise, instead of at sunrise.
Usually July, sometimes the first ten days of August: it falls between mid-July and early August, about two weeks after Devshayani. The date for New Delhi is Thursday, 29 July 2027; the table of years on this page shows the others.
Kamika's fast is broken on Dwadashi morning, once Hari Vasara is over (30 Jul, 10:30 AM); the window in New Delhi is 30 Jul, 1:48 PM to 4:31 PM. Many take the tulsi leaf offered to Vishnu at the morning puja as the very first thing they eat, with a sip of water.
A quick-tempered landowner quarrelled with a brahmin over a small matter and, in his rage, struck him dead. Horrified, he tried to atone and to perform the last rites himself, but the elders refused him and he lived as an outcast. A sage told him to keep the Kamika Ekadashi, worshipping Vishnu with tulsi and lamps and keeping the night awake. He did; the Purana says the weight of the act was lifted and he was accepted again. The full katha is above.
Kamika comes from kama, desire, and is usually read as the Ekadashi that fulfils one's wishes. Its own katha is about atonement rather than wishes: a grave wrong lifted by a fast kept with tulsi and lamps.
It is the first Ekadashi of Chaturmas and the one most closely tied to the tulsi: the Purana counts offering tulsi, lighting a lamp before it and even seeing the plant as merit. Its katha makes it the Ekadashi of expiation, and Bhishma says no jewel pleases Vishnu as much as one tulsi leaf offered today.
Because the katha and its teller make it so: the sage tells the landowner to worship Vishnu with tulsi and lamps, and Bhishma says a single tulsi leaf offered today outweighs any jewel or flower. Kamika also opens Chaturmas, the season that ends with Tulsi Vivah after Dev Uthani.
Leaves are never plucked on Ekadashi; those needed for the puja are picked on Dashami. On watering, customs differ: many families leave the tulsi unwatered on Ekadashi, holding that she keeps the fast too, while others water her as on any day. On Kamika everyone lights her a lamp.
Pick tulsi leaves and eat one meal on Dashami. On Ekadashi bathe, take the sankalp and worship Vishnu with a tulsi leaf on every offering, then bow to the tulsi and light a lamp before it. Read the katha, keep the fast, light lamps of ghee or sesame oil at dusk, keep part of the night awake and break the fast in the parana window.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya is the day's japa, 108 times on a tulsi mala. At the tulsi plant, say the tulsi pranam, Vrindayai Tulasi-devyai, which bows to Tulsi as dear to Keshava and the giver of devotion. Both are in the mantra section.
Om Jai Jagdish Hare, given in full above, after the morning puja; in the evening many sing it with the lamps lit before both Vishnu and the tulsi, and add a tulsi aarti or the Ekadashi Mata aarti from their vrat book.
Yes. In Maharashtra every Ekadashi is Vitthal's, and Kamika, the first after Ashadhi, is kept in Warkari homes and Vitthal temples with fasting, abhangas and tulsi garlands, which Vitthal is shown wearing.
