Ganesh mantra
ॐ गं गणपतये नमः
Om Gam Ganapataye Namah
Meaning: Om, gam: salutation to Ganapati, lord of the ganas.
When and how: At the start of the puja, 11 times.
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Krishna paksha · Jyeshtha · purnimanta reckoning
When is Vat Savitri Vrat 2027?
Fri, 4 Jun
Vat Savitri Vrat 2027 is on Friday, 4 June. In New Delhi the Vat Savitri Vrat muhurat is 10:56 AM to 1:42 PM.
2028: Wednesday, 24 May 2028
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Friday, 4 June 2027
Vat Savitri Vrat is not a Gregorian date. It is Krishna paksha tithi 15 of Jyeshtha in the purnimanta 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
- Amavasya, Krishna paksha
- Lunar month
- Jyeshtha (purnimanta)
- Tithi begins
- 4 Jun, 4:05 AM
- Tithi ends
- 5 Jun, 1:10 AM
- Decided at
- Madhyahna (middle of the day)
- Madhyahna in New Delhi
- 4 Jun, 12:19 PM
Madhyahna in New Delhi falls at 12:19 PM 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 madhyahna, so it belongs to the day whose madhyahna the tithi carries — not simply to the day the tithi begins.
Vat Savitri Vrat is the fast married women keep on Jyeshtha Amavasya for their husbands' long life, worshipping the banyan (vat) tree and Savitri, who won her husband Satyavan back from Yama. In New Delhi it falls on Friday, 4 June 2027; Amavasya runs 4:05 AM to 1:10 AM (5 Jun), and the puja is traditionally done in the morning of the vrat day. In Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Karnataka the same vrat is kept as Vat Purnima, on the full moon about a fortnight later.
| Muhurat | Time in New Delhi | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:23 AMThe upper edge of the Sun on the horizon, with refraction. | The fast begins at sunrise. Most women reach the banyan tree in the first hours after it, before the heat of the Jyeshtha day. |
| Brahma Muhurta | 4:02 AM to 4:42 AMThe 14th of the night's fifteen muhurtas, ending one muhurta before sunrise. | The hour before dawn, for the bath, the shringar and the sankalp before setting out for the tree. |
| Abhijit Muhurat | 11:51 AM to 12:47 PMThe 8th of the day's fifteen muhurtas, around local noon. | The midday muhurta. Women who cannot reach the tree in the morning often finish the puja by the end of it. There is no Abhijit on a Wednesday, by convention. |
| Auspicious choghadiya (day) |
| The day's Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Chal choghadiyas. Families who choose a time for the puja, or for giving the bayna to the mother-in-law, pick one of these while Amavasya runs. |
| Sunset | 7:16 PMThe upper edge of the Sun leaving the horizon. | Women who keep the vrat until evening break it after sunset, by the custom of their family; the puja itself should be finished well before. |
Auspicious windows that day
| Window | Time in New Delhi | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Abhijit Muhurat | 11:51 AM to 12:47 PM | Auspicious |
| Amrit Kaal | 7:00 AM to 8:29 AM | Most Auspicious |
| Amrit Kaal (Second) | 4:07 AM to 5:35 AM | Most Auspicious |
| Brahma Muhurat | 4:02 AM to 4:42 AM | 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.
| Window | Time in New Delhi |
|---|---|
| Rahu Kaal | 10:35 AM to 12:19 PM |
| Yamaganda Kaal | 3:47 PM to 5:31 PM |
| Durmuhurta First | 8:09 AM to 9:05 AM |
| Durmuhurta Second | 12:47 PM to 1:42 PM |
| Varjyam | 11:46 PM to 1:13 AM |
Every time above is computed for New Delhi around Friday, 4 June 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.
Shringar and the sankalp
Bathe early and dress as a bride would: a red, yellow or green saree, sindoor, bangles, bindi and the mehndi applied the evening before. Before setting out, hold water, rice and a flower and resolve to keep the Vat Savitri vrat for your husband's long life and your family's well-being.
Prepare the basket
In a thali or a bamboo basket, place the images of Savitri and Satyavan, roli, haldi, sindoor, akshat, raw cotton thread, flowers, soaked black gram, fruits, puri or pua, a lota of water, a ghee lamp, incense, a hand fan and the items of shringar to offer.
At the banyan tree
Go to a banyan tree in the morning. Clean the ground at its foot and set the images of Savitri and Satyavan there; many also place Yama beside them. Light the lamp and incense.
Ganesh and Gauri first
Begin with Ganesh, with Om Gam Ganapataye Namah, and Gauri, offering water, roli, akshat and a flower.
Worship the tree
Saying the banyan verse below, pour water at the roots of the banyan, then offer roli, haldi, sindoor, akshat, flowers, soaked gram, fruit and puri. Offer the shringar items and a red cloth or chunari to Savitri.
Wind the thread
Walk around the trunk clockwise, winding raw cotton thread (kachcha soot) or mauli around it as you go: seven rounds is the common number, and many women do 11, 21 or 108.
Fan the tree
Wave the hand fan before the tree and the images, as Savitri fanned Satyavan when he lay with his head in her lap.
Hear the katha
Sit together under the tree and read or listen to the story of Savitri and Satyavan; in many places an elder woman tells it.
Arghya to Savitri
Offer water to Savitri with the arghya verse, then pray to the banyan, asking for a long and full family life.
Aarti and the prayer for pardon
Wave the lamp before the tree and the images, offer flowers with folded hands and ask pardon for any mistake in the puja.
The bayna and blessings
At home, touch the feet of your mother-in-law and the elders, and give her the bayna: a basket of soaked gram, fruit, puri, sweets and a little shringar or clothes, with a coin. Give the dakshina and some gram and fruit to others who need it.
Breaking the fast
The fast is broken as the family's custom says: after the puja or in the evening, many women first eat a few soaked gram, and in parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh they swallow a tender banyan bud with them. The meal that follows is sattvik.
- Images of Savitri and Satyavan A printed picture, a small metal or clay pair, or figures shaped from clay or turmeric paste; many add Yama.
- A banyan tree, or a banyan twig at home The tree is the heart of the puja; at home, a twig that has fallen naturally, set in a pot of soil or water, or a picture, keeps the custom.
- Raw cotton thread (kachcha soot) or mauli Wound around the trunk during the parikrama; white, yellow or red.
- Roli or kumkum, haldi and sindoor For the tree, for Savitri and for your own tilak.
- Akshat (whole rice) Unbroken grains.
- Flowers and a garland Any fresh flowers of the season.
- A red cloth or chunari Offered to Savitri.
- Shringar items Bangles, bindi, sindoor, mehndi, kajal, a comb and a small mirror, offered to Savitri and given to married women.
- Soaked black gram (chana) Soaked overnight; offered, given in the bayna and eaten to break the fast.
- Seasonal fruits Mango, litchi, jackfruit, melon, banana or what the season brings.
- Puri, pua or gulgule Fried sweet or plain breads made at home for the offering and the bayna.
- A lota of water For watering the roots and for the arghya.
- A bamboo hand fan (pankha) To fan the tree and Savitri-Satyavan.
- Ghee lamp, wicks and incense For the puja and the aarti.
- Paan and supari Offered at the end of the naivedya.
- Coins for dakshina Placed with the bayna and given in charity.
- A bamboo basket (dauri) or a thali To carry everything to the tree.
- The bayna basket Gram, fruit, puri, sweets and a little shringar or clothes for the mother-in-law.
- Sweets Homemade if possible.
- A vrat katha book Optional; the story is given above.
Arghya to Savitri
अवैधव्यं च सौभाग्यं देहि त्वं मम सुव्रते ।
पुत्रान् पौत्रांश्च सौख्यं च गृहाणार्घ्यं नमोऽस्तु ते ॥
Avaidhavyam cha saubhagyam dehi tvam mama suvrate
Putran pautrams cha saukhyam cha grihanarghyam namo'stu te
Meaning: O Savitri, faithful to your vow, grant me freedom from widowhood and good fortune, sons, grandsons and happiness; accept this arghya, salutation to you.
When and how: Said once while offering water to Savitri after the tree has been worshipped. The Vrataraj gives it among the arghya verses of the Vat Savitri puja.
Banyan verse (vat puja)
वटमूले स्थितो ब्रह्मा वटमध्ये जनार्दनः ।
वटाग्रे तु शिवो देवः सावित्री वटसंश्रिता ॥
Vatamule sthito Brahma vatamadhye Janardanah
Vatagre tu Shivo devah Savitri vatasamshrita
Meaning: Brahma dwells at the root of the banyan, Janardana (Vishnu) in its middle and the god Shiva at its top, and Savitri rests in the banyan.
When and how: Said at the banyan after the sankalp, as the Vat Savitri puja of the Vrataraj begins; then water is poured at the root, the thread is wound round the trunk and the parikrama is made.
Mahamrityunjaya mantra
ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् ।
उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय माऽमृतात् ॥
Om tryambakam yajamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam
Urvarukam iva bandhanan mrityor mukshiya ma'mritat
Meaning: We worship the three-eyed one, fragrant, who increases nourishment. As a ripe cucumber is freed from its stem, may he free us from death, and not from immortality.
When and how: From the Rigveda, a hymn of the sage Vasishtha. Many women chant it 11 or 108 times as a prayer for their husband's long and healthy life.
The katha
King Ashvapati of Madra had no child until, after years of worship, the goddess Savitri blessed him with a daughter, whom he named after her. When Savitri grew up she chose her own husband: Satyavan, son of Dyumatsena, a blind king who had lost his kingdom and lived in a forest hermitage. The sage Narada warned that Satyavan, though virtuous, would die exactly a year from that day. Savitri did not change her mind, and the two were married.
Savitri lived in the forest, serving her husband and his blind parents, and counted the days. Three days before the foretold one she began a fast, and on the day itself she went with Satyavan into the forest. As he split wood his head began to ache; he lay down with his head in her lap, and Yama, lord of death, came himself to take his life and led it away to the south. Popular tradition places this beneath a banyan tree.
Savitri followed Yama. When he told her to turn back, she spoke so wisely about dharma and devotion that he offered her a boon, anything but Satyavan's life. She asked for her father-in-law's sight, then for his lost kingdom, then for sons for her own father, and Yama granted each. At last she asked for a hundred sons of her own by Satyavan. Yama granted it, and Savitri pointed out that it could not come true unless her husband lived. Pleased by her wisdom and her resolve, Yama gave Satyavan back his life.
Satyavan woke as if from sleep, and the two walked home to find Dyumatsena's sight restored and, before long, his kingdom too. The story is told by the sage Markandeya to Yudhishthira in the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata, and married women have told it to one another under the banyan tree ever since.
Why it is kept
Vat Savitri honours Savitri's courage and steadfastness, which won back her husband's life from death itself. Married women keep it for their husbands' long life and the good of the family; newly married women keep their first Vat Savitri with special care. The banyan is the natural partner of the vrat: it lives for centuries and keeps sending down new roots, so it stands for long life, and popular belief sees Brahma in its roots, Vishnu in its trunk and Shiva in its branches.
North India keeps the vrat on Jyeshtha Amavasya, in the purnimanta reckoning, which is the date on this page. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Karnataka keep it as Vat Purnima, on Jyeshtha Purnima about two weeks later, with the same tree, thread and story. Jyeshtha Amavasya is also Shani Jayanti, usually the same day, so many families worship Shani too.
Water the banyan
Pour water at the roots of a banyan tree on the day and, if you can, through the hot weeks that follow. Tradition sees the tree as a home of the gods and a giver of long life.
Plant a banyan or peepal
Plant a banyan or peepal sapling in a temple, a park or a place where it can grow for generations, and care for it. It keeps the meaning of the vrat alive long after the day.
The bayna to your mother-in-law
Give the bayna basket and touch her feet; tradition holds that the blessings of the elders of the house are part of the vrat's fruit.
Shringar for married women
Give bangles, sindoor, bindi and other shringar items to married women of the neighbourhood or to women who cannot afford them.
Gifts for the heat
Jyeshtha is the hottest month: give water, fruit, a hand fan, an umbrella or a pot of cool water to someone who needs it.
Tell the story
Read or tell the Savitri-Satyavan katha to the younger women and girls of the family, as it has always been passed on.
A lamp for Shani
Because the same Amavasya is Shani Jayanti, many families light a lamp of mustard oil in the evening and give black gram or sesame in Shani's name, as a traditional prayer for patience and protection.
Do
- Do the puja in the morning of the vrat day; the tithi times are above.
- Keep the fast as your health allows; water and fruit are fine if you need them.
- Wear festive clothes and the shringar of a married woman.
- Water the roots and wind the thread around the trunk, seven rounds or more.
- Listen to the Savitri-Satyavan katha under the tree.
- Give the bayna to your mother-in-law and touch the feet of the elders.
- Take a fallen twig, not a broken branch, if you worship at home.
- Clear away the thread bundles, wrappers and food you brought once the puja is done.
Don't
- Do not break branches or strip leaves from the banyan.
- Do not keep a fast without water if you are unwell, pregnant or elderly.
- Do not wear black or white for this suhag puja, by the custom of most families; red, yellow and green are traditional.
- Do not quarrel or speak harshly on the day of the vrat.
- Do not leave plastic, thread bundles or food waste at the foot of the tree.
- Do not put off the puja until after Amavasya has ended, if you can help it.
By region
- Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh
- Kept on Jyeshtha Amavasya with fruit such as mango and litchi, pua and soaked gram; in Mithila newly married women keep their first Barsait with great ceremony, and the day goes by local names such as Bargadahi and Badmavas.
- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab
- Women gather at the neighbourhood banyan in the morning, wind the thread together and hear the katha from an elder.
- Odisha
- Sabitri Brata on Jyeshtha Amavasya: married women worship Savitri at home or under a banyan with seasonal fruit and hear the Sabitri Brata katha.
- Maharashtra and Goa
- Vat Purnima on Jyeshtha Purnima: women in their finest sarees wind thread around the banyan, offer fruit and exchange vaan, small gifts of fruit and shringar.
- Gujarat
- Vat Savitri is kept on the Purnima; some women fast for three days, from Trayodashi to the full moon, as the older form of the vrat prescribes.
- Karnataka
- Kept on the Purnima, mainly by families of North Karnataka and Maharashtrian heritage, with the banyan, thread and story.
Bhog, prasad and fasting food
- Soaked black gram Offered to the tree, given in the bayna and eaten first to break the fast.
- Pua, gulgule and puri Sweet fritters and fried breads made at home for the offering, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh above all.
- Mango, litchi and jackfruit Fruits of the Jyeshtha season, offered and shared.
- Kheer or a sweet For the meal that breaks the fast.
- A sattvik meal Simple vegetarian food without onion or garlic in many homes, eaten after the puja or in the evening.
- Aamras (Maharashtra) Often part of the Vat Purnima meal in Maharashtra.
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 | Thursday, 6 June 2024 | past |
| 2025 | Monday, 26 May 2025 | past |
| 2026This year | Saturday, 16 May 2026 | past |
| 2027 | Friday, 4 June 2027 | upcoming |
| 2028 | Wednesday, 24 May 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Which moment decides. Most vratas belong to the day whose sunrise carries the tithi, but not all: this one is decided at madhyahna. 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 Vat Savitri Vrat?
Friday, 4 June 2027. It is Amavasya of Krishna paksha in Jyeshtha, and that tithi runs from 4 Jun, 4:05 AM to 5 Jun, 1:10 AM.
Why does another calendar give a different Vat Savitri Vrat 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.
What is the Vat Savitri Vrat muhurat in New Delhi?
In New Delhi, Vat Savitri Vrat falls on Friday, 4 June 2027, the day whose midday Jyeshtha Amavasya holds; Amavasya runs 4:05 AM to 1:10 AM (5 Jun). The puja is traditionally done in the morning; if you cannot reach the tree then, finish it by midday (the Abhijit muhurat is 11:51 AM to 12:47 PM). Times differ by city, so choose yours on this page.
Is Vat Savitri the same as Vat Purnima?
It is the same vrat, kept on two different days. North India keeps it on Jyeshtha Amavasya in the purnimanta reckoning, which is the date on this page, Friday, 4 June 2027. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Karnataka keep it as Vat Purnima, on Jyeshtha Purnima about two weeks later, with the same banyan tree, thread and story. Follow the tradition of your family and region.
When do Gujarat and Maharashtra keep Vat Savitri?
On the full moon of Jyeshtha (Vat Purnima), about a fortnight after the Amavasya date on this page; some Gujarati women fast for three days, from Trayodashi to the Purnima. The worship is the same: the banyan tree, the thread wound around it, the fast and the katha of Savitri and Satyavan.
How is the Vat Savitri puja done?
Dress in your shringar, take a sankalp and go to a banyan tree in the morning. Worship Ganesh and Gauri, set Savitri and Satyavan at the foot of the tree, water its roots, offer roli, sindoor, akshat, flowers, soaked gram and fruit, then walk around it seven times or more winding raw cotton thread. Fan the tree, hear the katha, offer arghya to Savitri, do the aarti and give the bayna to your mother-in-law.
What is needed for the Vat Savitri puja (samagri)?
Images of Savitri and Satyavan, raw cotton thread or mauli, roli, haldi, sindoor, akshat, flowers, a red cloth, shringar items, soaked black gram, seasonal fruit, puri or pua, a lota of water, a bamboo hand fan, a ghee lamp and incense, paan and supari, coins and the bayna basket. The full list above gives substitutes.
What is the Vat Savitri vrat katha?
Savitri, a princess, married Satyavan though the sage Narada warned he would die within a year. On the fated day Yama came for his life; Savitri followed him and spoke so wisely that he granted her boons, anything but Satyavan's life. Her last request, a hundred sons of her own by Satyavan, could not come true without him, and Yama gave her husband back. The full story, from the Mahabharata, is above.
Why is the banyan tree worshipped on Vat Savitri?
The banyan lives for centuries and keeps sending down new roots, so it stands for long life, the very thing the vrat prays for. Popular belief sees Brahma in its roots, Vishnu in its trunk and Shiva in its branches, and tradition places Satyavan's return to life beneath a banyan. That is why women water it, wind thread around it and pray before it.
Why is Vat Savitri Vrat kept?
Married women keep it for their husbands' long life and the well-being of the family, remembering Savitri, whose steadfastness won Satyavan back from death. It also honours the banyan as a symbol of long life and continuity. Newly married women keep their first Vat Savitri with special care.
What can be eaten in the Vat Savitri vrat?
Customs differ. Some women keep a nirjala fast until the puja and katha are over; many take water, fruit and milk through the day. The fast is usually broken with a few soaked gram, followed by a sattvik meal of puri, sabzi, kheer or what the family makes for the day, without onion or garlic in many homes.
Can unmarried girls keep the Vat Savitri vrat?
The vrat is traditionally kept by married women, but nothing forbids a girl from joining. In many families unmarried girls join the puja and the katha with their mothers, and some keep the fast with a prayer for a good husband, as they do on other vrats.
Can I keep the Vat Savitri vrat during pregnancy?
Yes, but without strain. A pregnant woman can do the whole puja, ideally at home or at a nearby tree, and keep a light fast with water, fruit and milk instead of a nirjala one; walking seven rounds slowly, or fewer, is fine. Follow your doctor's advice first; tradition puts the health of the mother and child above the rigour of any fast.
Can the Vat Savitri puja be done during periods?
Customs differ from family to family. Many women who are menstruating keep the fast and the prayer in their heart, while another married woman of the family performs the touching of the tree and the offerings for them; others do the whole puja. Follow the practice of your household.
Can the Vat Savitri puja be done at home without a banyan tree?
Yes. If there is no banyan nearby, worship a banyan twig that has fallen on its own, set in a pot of soil or water, or a picture of the tree, with the images of Savitri and Satyavan before it. Wind the thread around the pot or the twig, and do the rest of the puja as at the tree.
Is there an aarti for Vat Savitri?
There is no single scriptural aarti for the vrat. Women wave the lamp before the tree and the images as the aarti, and many sing a folk aarti of Savitri and Satyavan or Om Jai Jagdish Hare. The arghya verse and the banyan verse, with their meaning, are in the mantra section.
Can the Vat Savitri puja be done in the evening?
The traditional time is the morning of the vrat day. If work or travel makes that impossible, do it as early in the day as you can and before sunset, ideally while Amavasya lasts (4:05 AM to 1:10 AM (5 Jun)); an auspicious choghadiya of the day (Chal: 5:23 AM to 7:07 AM; Labh: 7:07 AM to 8:51 AM; Amrit: 8:51 AM to 10:35 AM; Shubh: 12:19 PM to 2:03 PM; Chal: 5:31 PM to 7:16 PM) is a good choice.