Dev Uthani Ekadashi 2026: Date, Tulsi Vivah and Parana

The Short Answer, and Why It Has Two Parts (देवउठनी एकादशी 2026 कब है)

Dev Uthani Ekadashi, also called Prabodhini Ekadashi, is the Ekadashi of the bright fortnight of Kartika. The festival table this site generates places it on Friday, 20 November 2026. It is not the only date you will see printed, and the reason is not a typo in someone’s almanac: at New Delhi, the city the table is computed for, the Ekadashi tithi this year never meets a sunrise — and across a large part of eastern and southern India it does meet one, on the following morning.

An Ekadashi is normally dated by the tithi running at sunrise. A tithi that slips between two sunrises without containing either is called kshaya, and then each calendar decides by its own rule which day gets the observance. The two candidates this year are 20 November 2026 and 21 November 2026; the numbers behind each follow.

An Ekadashi With No Sunrise at New Delhi (क्षय एकादशी)

Sunrise on 20 November 2026 is at 06:47, and at that moment the tithi is still Dashami. The Ekadashi opens at 07:16, 29 minutes after the Sun is up. It runs through the day and the night and closes at 06:32 on 21 November 2026 — 16 minutes before that morning’s sunrise at 06:48. By the time the second sunrise arrives the tithi is Dwadashi.

The miss is narrow. From sunrise to sunrise is 24 hours 1 minute; the Ekadashi lasts 23 hours 16 minutes. A tithi shorter than the solar day can fit entirely inside it, and this one does, with under half an hour to spare at either end. Across four mornings the daily panchang shows the tithi at sunrise is Navami on 19 November, Dashami on 20 November, Dwadashi on 21 November and Trayodashi on 22 November. Ekadashi is missing from that sequence; it exists only between the mornings.

Where You Are Changes the Answer

The tithi instants are absolute: they come from the angle between the Moon and the Sun and hold everywhere in India. The sunrises are not. The margin at the far end is 16 minutes at New Delhi, and the Sun rises much earlier in the east and south of the country. Using the same sunrise calculation the site’s city panchang pages use, sunrise on 21 November 2026 comes at Guwahati 05:45, Kolkata 05:52, Bhubaneswar 05:59, Chennai 06:10 and Patna 06:11. Every one of those is before 06:32. In those cities the Ekadashi is still the running tithi when the Sun comes up on 21 November, the tithi is not kshaya at all, and the ordinary sunrise rule gives 21 November 2026 without any special convention.

Further west the picture is the New Delhi one: sunrise on 21 November is at Mumbai 06:49, Jaipur 06:50 and Ahmedabad 06:56, after the Ekadashi has ended. The opening end does not move enough to matter. Even where the Sun rises latest — Jammu 07:04, Amritsar 07:02, Jodhpur 06:59 and Ahmedabad 06:56 on 20 November — it is up before the Ekadashi opens at 07:16, so no city in the site’s list has the Ekadashi at sunrise on 20 November. These are computed sunrises with the seconds dropped; for a town where sunrise falls within a few minutes of 06:32, follow the local almanac. The daily panchang gives the sunrise and tithi for any date, and how to read a panchang explains the columns.

Two Defensible Dates: 20 November or 21 November

The Dev Uthani row carries no special day-part rule; like the other Ekadashis it is a sunrise-rule row, and at New Delhi that rule has nothing to grip. The generator behind the table settles the case by a stated convention: a kshaya tithi is observed on the day it begins. That is how Friday 20 November reached the table, and it is the date you will find on the site’s festival calendar.

The Vaishnava calendars reason differently, and for this year their reasoning points the other way. The rule set out in the Hari Bhakti Vilasa, which the Gaudiya Vaishnava calendar follows, sets aside an Ekadashi that is touched by Dashami at dawn, reckoning dawn as arunodaya, the stretch before sunrise rather than sunrise itself. On 20 November the whole pre-dawn window the table lists as Brahma Muhurat (05:11-06:47) is Dashami. On 21 November the Ekadashi is still running through the pre-dawn hours — the table’s window that morning is 05:12-06:48, and the tithi does not end until 06:32. Calendars that work this way can therefore keep the fast on Saturday, 21 November 2026.

Neither date is a mistake. Published almanacs for 2026 may print either, and one computed for an eastern or southern city has a plain reason to print 21 November. Follow the calendar your family or temple already uses for its Ekadashis rather than switching rules for one year.

Parana: Breaking the Fast on Dwadashi (पारण)

Across the Ekadashi customs, the fast is broken on the Dwadashi, the twelfth tithi, after sunrise. For a household fasting on 20 November, that means the morning of 21 November 2026: the Dwadashi is the tithi at sunrise that day, so the condition the custom asks for is met as soon as the Sun is up. The daily table shows Trayodashi at sunrise on 22 November, so that Dwadashi is over before the following morning.

This page prints no parana window, because the table holds none, and a parana minute worked out by hand from a sunrise would only look authoritative. Families fasting on 21 November should take the parana from the calendar that set the fast; for them it turns on where the Dwadashi ends, which this table does not record.

The food rules are customs and they vary: the common Ekadashi practice leaves out grains and pulses, stricter households keep a nirjala fast without water, others take fruit and milk. How strict a fast to keep is a question for the family tradition and, where health is involved, for a doctor.

The End of Chaturmas: 118 Days (चातुर्मास)

In the Puranic account told for this pair of Ekadashis, Vishnu enters yoga-nidra on Devshayani Ekadashi in Ashadha and rises on Prabodhini, the “awakening” Ekadashi, in Kartika; dev uthani is the Hindi for the same idea, the deity getting up. The four months between are chaturmas. In 2026 the table puts Devshayani on Saturday, 25 July 2026 and Dev Uthani on 20 November 2026, a span of 118 days — four lunar months, which run a little short of four calendar months. Measured to 21 November, as a Vaishnava calendar would close it this year, the count is one day longer.

2026 is a year with an intercalary month, Adhika Jyeshtha, which the table runs from 17 May 2026 to 15 June 2026. It ends before Devshayani, so it lengthens the year but not the chaturmas: the four months this year are four ordinary lunar months. The monastic reckoning of chaturmas from Ashadha Purnima is a separate count, set out on the Guru Purnima 2026 page.

In many households of the Hindi belt the waking is acted out: the deity’s feet are drawn on the floor, sugarcane and the season’s new produce are set out, and a winnowing basket or a metal plate is beaten while the family calls on the deity to rise. Where a food or a practice was given up for chaturmas, this is the day the custom takes it back up.

Tulsi Vivah 2026: Ekadashi or Dwadashi (तुलसी विवाह)

Tulsi Vivah is the ceremonial marriage of the household tulsi plant to Vishnu, usually in the form of a shaligram stone or an image of Krishna. The story households tell for it is the story of Vrinda, the wife of Jalandhara, who became the tulsi plant; the marriage is staged as a wedding in miniature, with the plant dressed as a bride and, in many homes, a canopy of sugarcane stalks.

Family and regional custom splits on the day. Some households perform it on the Ekadashi itself, others on the Dwadashi that follows. In 2026 the two customs land on 20 November 2026 and 21 November 2026 respectively, if the Ekadashi is taken from this site’s table. The Ekadashi opens at 07:16 and runs through the whole of the evening of 20 November, sunset being 17:25 at New Delhi, so a family that does the vivah after dark on the Ekadashi has the tithi on its side. On 21 November the Dwadashi holds the sunrise. Note the coincidence: in this kshaya year, a Dwadashi family’s Tulsi Vivah and a Vaishnava calendar’s Ekadashi fast fall on the same date.

Weddings After Dev Uthani: Why No Vivah Muhurat Is Printed Here

The North Indian custom treats the end of chaturmas as the reopening of the wedding season. Reopening the season is not the same as supplying a date, though. A wedding muhurat needs the day’s tithi, nakshatra and other limbs to clear the classical exclusions, and then needs reading against the couple’s own charts; the end of chaturmas only removes one of the objections. This page therefore names no wedding dates. The computed list, with its reasons, is on wedding dates 2026–2027, and the compatibility side is explained in kundli matching and the 36 gunas.

One more boundary sits close behind. The same table runs the next Dhanu Kharmas from 16 December 2026 to 14 January 2027, a period the same North Indian calendars keep free of weddings; it begins 26 days after Dev Uthani.

Looking Ahead to 2027

The problem does not recur in 2027: the Kartika Shukla Ekadashi opens at 07:35 on 9 November 2027 and is still running at sunrise on Wednesday, 10 November 2027, closing at 09:11 that morning, so the ordinary sunrise rule picks the day without needing a convention. The full computed page is Dev Uthani Ekadashi 2027. For the rest of this year’s observances, see the 2026 Hindu festival calendar and the festival dates index. In Hindi: देवउठनी एकादशी 2026: तारीख, तुलसी विवाह और पारण.