Kamada Ekadashi 2027: 17 April Date and a Tight Parana

Kamada Ekadashi falls on Saturday, 17 April 2027. There is no dispute over the day: every almanac rule this site applies, in every city it computes, picks the same Saturday. The interest lies at the edges. The tithi arrives before lunch on the 16th, so the customary Dashami meal has to come early, and the Dwadashi that follows has almost run out by the time the sun is up on the 18th, which leaves a parana window of only an hour or two.

The Tithi, Start to Finish (कामदा एकादशी)

By the site’s lunar code the Shukla Ekadashi opens at 11:22 on 16 April and closes at 09:28 on 17 April. Kamada has no row of its own in the generated festival tables, so these instants are computed here; where the same code can be checked against the DE421-derived tables, at 86 tithi instants, it is never more than 1 minute out.

The New Delhi daily table names the tithi at each sunrise. On Friday the 16th it is Shukla Dashami at 05:55; on Saturday the 17th it is Shukla Ekadashi at 05:54, with 3 hours 34 minutes of the tithi still to go; on Sunday the 18th it is Shukla Dwadashi at 05:53. Only one sunrise lands inside the Ekadashi, so the Smarta practice of fasting on the day the tithi greets at dawn has a single answer.

The Vaishnava check gives the same answer. Calendars that follow the Hari Bhakti Vilasa look at arunodaya, roughly 96 minutes ahead of sunrise, and set the fast aside if Dashami is still present then. On the morning of the 17th Dashami will have ended the previous forenoon; across all 38 panchang cities the Ekadashi is at least sixteen hours old at arunodaya, and at sunrise it still has at least 3 hours 8 minutes left to run. Nowhere on the list is the day near a boundary.

The Dashami Meal Comes Before Noon on the 16th

Households that follow the Dashami niyam take one simple meal on the day before the fast. Where that meal is meant to fall inside Dashami itself, this year’s timing matters. In New Delhi the 16th has 5 hours 27 minutes of Dashami daylight, from the 05:55 sunrise to 11:22; everything after that, through to sunset at 18:47, is already Ekadashi. The figure depends on local sunrise: Mumbai, where the sun comes up latest, has the shortest Dashami morning at 5 hours 2 minutes, and Guwahati the longest at 6 hours 23 minutes. In every city on the list more than half of the 16th’s daylight belongs to the Ekadashi.

A family whose practice is simply “one meal before sunset on Dashami day” may read the custom by the civil day rather than the tithi; that is a household question, and the Ekadashi vrat niyam page sets out how the Dashami custom is usually described. The figures above only say where the tithi boundary falls.

A Fast Day Whose Tithi Ends by Mid-Morning

At 09:28 on the 17th the Ekadashi gives way to Shukla Dwadashi, so for most of the fast day the running tithi is already the twelfth. That does not move the fast. The sunrise rule hands the whole of Saturday to the Ekadashi, and the fast is broken the next morning, not when the tithi changes. The same afternoon also disposes of Hari Vasara, the first quarter of the Dwadashi, which panchangs that print a parana time keep clear of: counted from 09:28, that quarter runs out during the afternoon of the 17th, well before sunset and a long way ahead of the parana morning.

A Short Parana Window on Sunday (पारण)

The parana custom asks for the fast to be broken after sunrise and while Dwadashi is still current. The computed Dwadashi ends at 07:42 on 18 April. In New Delhi, where the sun rises at 05:53 that morning, that leaves 1 hour 49 minutes. It is a short window, and it is fixed at the far end, because the tithi closes at one instant everywhere while sunrise moves.

Worked through the solar code for each of the 38 cities, the gap from local sunrise to the end of Dwadashi is under two hours in 28 of them. It is narrowest in Mumbai, where sunrise is at 06:19 and 1 hour 23 minutes remain, and widest in Guwahati, at 2 hours 45 minutes after a 04:57 sunrise. No city falls under an hour, so none of these is close enough to the line for this page to withhold a ruling; the practical point is simply that the parana belongs to the early morning of the 18th. The panchang calculator has one location built in, New Delhi; for other cities the sunrise and sunset are given on the city panchang pages, and the household’s own panchang or purohit settles what is eaten and when.

The First Ekadashi of the Chaitra New Year

The fortnight opens with the new moon at 05:21 on 7 April, the day the 2027 table gives for Gudi Padwa and Ugadi, the Chaitra Shukla Pratipada that those festivals keep as the start of the lunar year. The Sun stands in sidereal Pisces at that new moon, and a lunation opening under Pisces is Chaitra in the amanta reckoning. North Indian purnimanta calendars begin their Chaitra earlier, after the March full moon of Holika Dahan, and close it at the full moon of Hanuman Jayanti on Tuesday 20 April, three days after Kamada. Either way this is the Chaitra Shukla Ekadashi. The Chaitra 2027 month page lays out where each version of the month starts and ends.

No Ekadashi sunrise falls between Gudi Padwa and the 17th, while the dark-fortnight Ekadashi before it comes ahead of the new moon, so in the year that starts at Gudi Padwa Kamada is the first Ekadashi, ten days in. It also follows straight on from the spring Navratri. Ram Navami, the ninth day, is Thursday 15 April, two days before the fast; its Navami ends at 13:21 that afternoon, and the Dashami that begins then is the one that carries through to the late morning of the 16th. The nine days themselves are set out on the Navratri 2027 page, and the Mahavir Jayanti 2027 page takes up the Shukla Trayodashi that follows this Dwadashi.

The Story of Lalit and Lalita

Kamada means “granting what is wished for”. That is what the name says; this page does not say that keeping the fast grants anything. The vrat katha told for this Ekadashi, which the vrat books ascribe to the Varaha Purana, concerns two gandharvas, Lalit and his wife Lalita. In that telling Lalit is singing in the court of King Pundarika when his thoughts stray to Lalita and his song falters, and the king curses him to become a rakshasa. Lalita follows him until a sage tells her of the Chaitra Shukla Ekadashi; she keeps it and offers its merit to her husband, and in the katha’s ending he is restored to his own form. The story is reported here as the katha’s, and the page makes no claim about what the vrat does for anyone who keeps it.

At a Glance

• Fast day: Saturday 17 April 2027, on Smarta and Vaishnava reckoning alike
• Ekadashi (computed): 11:22 on 16 April to 09:28 on 17 April
• Dashami daylight on 16 April (New Delhi): 05:55 to 11:22
• Dwadashi (computed): 09:28 on 17 April to 07:42 on 18 April
• Parana (New Delhi): Sunday 18 April, between the 05:53 sunrise and 07:42; narrower where sunrise is later
• New Delhi on 17 April: sunrise 05:54, sunset 18:47, nakshatra at sunrise Magha
• Month: Chaitra Shukla in amanta and purnimanta calendars

Three days on comes the Chaitra Purnima, and the rest of the year’s fasts are in the Ekadashi 2027 list, the 2027 festival calendar and the computed festival pages. In Hindi: कामदा एकादशी 2027: 17 अप्रैल को व्रत, पारण के लिए कम समय.