Dasha Mata Vrat 2027: Date, Dashami Tithi and Puja Custom

Dasha Mata (दशा माता) is worshipped on the tenth lunar day of the dark fortnight that follows Holi, Chaitra Krishna Dashami in the north Indian month count. In 2027 that day is Thursday, 1 April 2027, ten days after Holi. In every city this page tests, from Kolkata to Mumbai, the Dashami holds that sunrise and no other, so there is no second candidate to weigh.

Counting Ten Days From Holi

The site’s 2027 festival table puts Holika Dahan on Sunday 21 March and the day of colours on Monday 22 March. That second morning still opens on the Purnima; the full moon comes at 16:13 the same afternoon, and the dark fortnight starts there. From 23 March onward the daily panchang for New Delhi gives each tithi from Pratipada to Dashami exactly one sunrise, with none skipped and none repeated, so the tenth sunrise after Holi is also the Dashami’s sunrise: Thursday 1 April. A year in which one of those tithis dropped out or held two dawns would pull the plain day count and the tithi apart; 2027 is not such a year.

The Dashami: 22:17 on 31 March to 00:45 on 2 April

No festival row carries this Dashami, so its two ends come from the site’s tithi code. That code is checked against all 86 festival rows that print tithi instants, and its worst disagreement with them is 1 minute. On it the Navami gives way to the Dashami at 22:17 on Wednesday 31 March, well after that evening’s 18:38 sunset, and the Dashami runs until 00:45 on Friday 2 April, a little after midnight, a span of 26 hours 28 minutes. At New Delhi it is 7 hours 54 minutes old when the Sun comes up at 06:11 on 1 April, and 6 hours 7 minutes of it remain after the 18:38 sunset. The whole of Thursday’s daylight belongs to it.

Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Beyond, by Local Sunrise

A sunrise-tithi calendar dates the puja by the tithi current at the local dawn, and dawn moves with longitude. The table runs that test on each city’s own sunrise for 31 March, 1 April and 2 April, and adds the tithi at the city’s sunset on 1 April. The site has no panchang record for Bikaner or Kota; Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur stand in for Rajasthan, and Kolkata and Mumbai for families who keep the custom far from it.

Eight cities, one answer. Kolkata, whose dawn at 05:29 is the earliest on the list, has the narrowest margin at the far end: the Dashami is gone 4 hours 43 minutes before its 2 April dawn. Every other city has more room on both sides, and the Dashami is over seven hours old at every 1 April dawn on the list. A local almanac anywhere on this list has no reason to move the puja off Thursday.

Chaitra in Rajasthan, Phalguna in an Amanta Calendar

Rajasthani almanacs count the month from full moon to full moon, so the fortnight after Holi already belongs to Chaitra and this Dashami is Chaitra Krishna Dashami. Calendars that run from new moon to new moon put the same fortnight at the end of Phalguna and begin their Chaitra with Gudi Padwa on Wednesday 7 April. The tithi and the date do not change; only the month label does. The Chaitra month 2027 page sets the two reckonings side by side.

Looking for Gujarat’s Dashama Vrat?

Gujarat’s Dashama vrat is a different observance, ten days long, kept in the monsoon months on a calendar of its own, and this page does not date it.

The Pipal, the Ten-Knot Dora and the Katha

The puja belongs to Rajasthani custom and travels with Marwari families to the cities where they have settled; it is also kept in parts of Madhya Pradesh. Women of the household carry it out. By custom they worship a pipal tree on the दशमी, and they take a cotton thread tied with ten knots, the dasha dora, which they wear after the puja. They then listen to the vrat’s katha. Many Rajasthani households tell the story of Raja Nal and Damayanti in connection with it; the version told, and the order of the rest of the rite, differ from family to family, and the elder women of the house or the family priest are the people to follow on both.

The name gives the purpose the custom itself states. Dasha here means the condition of the household, its run of fortune, and the vrat is kept, in the custom’s own account, so that the family’s dasha may be good. That is the observance’s reason as its keepers give it; this page records it and makes no claim about what the vrat brings about.

Papmochani Ekadashi the Next Morning

The Ekadashi takes over at 00:45 on 2 April, and Friday 2 April is its only sunrise at New Delhi. The Ekadashi 2027 list names it Papmochani Ekadashi, so a household that keeps both has the two on consecutive days. Between Holi and Dasha Mata falls the Krishna Ashtami of Sheetala Ashtami and Basoda 2027, and after Gudi Padwa comes Chaitra’s bright half, which in Rajasthan carries Gangaur 2027.

Dasha Mata 2027 at a Glance

• Dasha Mata puja: Thursday, 1 April 2027, by sunrise tithi in every city tested
• Chaitra Krishna Dashami: 22:17 on 31 March to 00:45 on 2 April (computed)
• Holika Dahan and Holi: Sunday 21 March and Monday 22 March; the puja falls ten days after Holi
• Sunrise and sunset on 1 April (New Delhi): 06:11 and 18:38
• Papmochani Ekadashi (sunrise tithi): Friday, 2 April 2027

The rest of the season is on the March 2027 and April 2027 vrat and tyohar lists. Sunrise and sunset for a town not in the table are on the panchang tool, and the festival hub indexes the observances in the site’s festival tables. In Hindi: दशा माता व्रत 2027: तारीख, दशमी तिथि और पूजा की परंपरा.