Aja Ekadashi 2027: 28 August Date and Sunday Parana

The 2027 date for Aja Ekadashi is Saturday, 28 August 2027, with the fast broken on Sunday, 29 August 2027. There is only one candidate day this time, and no split between almanacs to sort out. What makes the year’s timing worth a closer look is that the tithi keeps unusual hours: it opens in the middle of Friday afternoon, is gone around Saturday’s noon, and leaves Sunday only a few morning hours for the parana. Some calendars print the day under a second name, Annada Ekadashi.

From Friday Afternoon to Saturday Midday (अजा एकादशी)

By the site’s lunar code the Krishna Ekadashi begins at 15:26 on Friday 27 August and ends at 12:43 on Saturday 28 August. Aja has no row of its own in the generated festival tables, so these two instants are computed rather than looked up; across the 86 tithi boundaries where the DE421 tables and the code can be compared, the worst disagreement is 1 minute.

The New Delhi daily panchang, which reads the tithi at each sunrise, has Krishna Dashami at 05:56 on 27 August, Krishna Ekadashi at 05:56 on 28 August and Krishna Dwadashi at 05:57 on 29 August. Only one dawn sits inside the Ekadashi, then, and the same holds in each of the thirty-eight panchang cities on this site: when the sun comes up on Saturday the tithi still has more than five hours to run even in Mumbai, where it is least. Friday cannot compete, because the tithi only starts that afternoon.

Vaishnava calendars of the Hari Bhakti Vilasa line also look at arunodaya, the stretch of about 96 minutes before sunrise, and set the fast aside if Dashami still touches it. That is no obstacle in 2027. By Saturday’s arunodaya the Ekadashi has been running since the previous afternoon, more than eleven hours in every city, so the pre-dawn test and the plain sunrise test agree on Saturday.

A Dashami That Ends Before Friday Evening

The Krishna Dashami has been current since 17:40 on Thursday 26 August, and gives way at 15:26 on Friday. That changeover lands well after local noon everywhere, by more than two hours, and well before sunset. In New Delhi the Ekadashi has been under way for 3 hours 22 minutes when the sun sets at 18:48; the lead is narrowest in Guwahati, at 2 hours 22 minutes, and widest in Jodhpur, at 3 hours 37 minutes. So the evening of 27 August is already Ekadashi across the whole list.

This matters for households that follow the vrat manuals’ custom of a single meal on the Dashami. Where that custom is kept, the Dashami part of Friday, and with it the time for that meal, runs out at 15:26. The page gives the tithi instant only; it does not set a mealtime, and the family’s own calendar or purohit is the place to settle the details. The general conduct of the eve and the fast day is collected on the Ekadashi vrat niyam page.

Saturday: The Tithi Turns Around Noon

On the fast day itself the Ekadashi lasts only part of the daylight. Its 12:43 end comes within half an hour of local noon in Ahmedabad, the nearest case, and 1 hour 19 minutes after local noon in Guwahati, the furthest. For the rest of Saturday the tithi is Dwadashi. That does not move the fast, which is fixed by the sunrise and kept until the parana the next morning; it is simply why the panchang for the afternoon of 28 August shows a different tithi from the morning.

Some keep the day without grain, some without food, and some without water as well. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, or are on any medication, check with your doctor before you fast in any of these ways.

Hari Vasara on Saturday, Parana on Sunday Morning (पारण)

The Krishna Dwadashi runs from 12:43 on Saturday to 09:36 on Sunday. Its opening quarter is Hari Vasara, during which the vrat manuals do not allow the parana, and in 2027 that quarter is about five hours long. It finishes around sunset on Saturday: in twenty-nine of the cities it is over at least half an hour before the sun goes down, while in the other nine, Guwahati, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Patna, Visakhapatnam, Varanasi, Chennai and Raipur, the two moments are too close together to put in order. Either way it has ended more than ten hours before any city’s Sunday sunrise, so it places no limit on the parana.

The limit comes from the other side. The Dwadashi ends at 09:36 on Sunday, and the custom is to break the fast while it lasts. From the 05:57 sunrise in New Delhi that is 3 hours 39 minutes. Since the tithi ends at the same instant everywhere and sunrise does not, the window is shortest at 3 hours 14 minutes in Mumbai after a 06:22 sunrise, and longest at 4 hours 35 minutes in Guwahati after a 05:01 sunrise. The panchang tool draws up each day for New Delhi and no other place; the sunrise and sunset of the other cities counted above are printed one city at a time on the city panchang pages.

Which Month: Shravana or Bhadrapada

Aja belongs to the lunation that begins with the new moon at 15:35 on 2 August, with the Sun in sidereal Cancer. A Cancer new moon opens Shravana in the amanta reckoning, which counts from new moon to new moon, and that month runs on until the new moon at 23:11 on 31 August. In amanta almanacs, then, this is the Shravana Krishna Ekadashi. The site’s festival rules file Raksha Bandhan on 17 August as the Shravana Purnima, and the full moon behind it, at 12:58 that day, is the one that opens the dark half Aja sits in, eleven days before the fast.

Purnimanta calendars, the usual reckoning in north India, close their Shravana at that same full moon and start Bhadrapada. For them the day is the Bhadrapada Krishna Ekadashi. The rules confirm where Bhadrapada stands: Hartalika Teej (3 September) and Ganesh Chaturthi (4 September) are filed as Bhadrapada shukla, and both come after the 31 August new moon. So Aja falls inside amanta Shravana but after the north’s Sawan has ended, which the Sawan 2027 and Bhadrapada 2027 pages lay out month by month.

Four Days After Janmashtami

The same dark fortnight holds Krishna Janmashtami, which the site’s table sets on Tuesday 24 August by its midnight (nishita) rule and files as the Shravana Krishna Ashtami. Aja comes four days later, so the two observances sit close together in the calendar this year.

Looking back, the bright-fortnight fast before Aja is Shravana Putrada Ekadashi on Thursday 12 August, sixteen days earlier. The dark-fortnight one before that, Kamika Ekadashi, has no sunrise of its own in New Delhi and is printed on two different days; Aja has none of that difficulty.

The Story of Harishchandra

The vrat katha books attach this Ekadashi to King Harishchandra. In their telling he has lost his kingdom and been separated from his wife and son, and is serving at a cremation ground, when the sage Gautama comes upon him and tells him about this fast. Harishchandra keeps it. How the story closes is set out in the katha, and this page leaves it there; it makes no claim about what keeping the fast does for anyone.

Aja Ekadashi 2027: Summary

• Fast: Saturday 28 August 2027, the one Ekadashi sunrise in every city on the list
• Krishna Ekadashi (computed): 15:26 on 27 August to 12:43 on 28 August
• Krishna Dashami: ends 15:26 on Friday; the Friday evening is already Ekadashi
• Parana: Sunday 29 August 2027, after sunrise (05:57 in New Delhi) and before Dwadashi ends at 09:36
• Month: Shravana Krishna Ekadashi (amanta); Bhadrapada Krishna Ekadashi (purnimanta)
• New Delhi on 28 August: sunrise 05:56, sunset 18:47, nakshatra at sunrise Ardra

All of the year’s fasts are on the Ekadashi 2027 list. The rest of the month is on the August 2027 vrat and festival list, and the whole year on the 2027 festival calendar. In Hindi: अजा एकादशी 2027: 28 अगस्त को व्रत, रविवार की सुबह पारण.