Mohini Ekadashi 2027: Date, Parana and the Dashami Evening

Mohini Ekadashi in 2027 is Sunday, 16 May, and the fast is broken on Monday morning, 17 May. Choosing the day takes no argument this year: whichever rule an almanac applies, and wherever in India it is printed, the answer is that Sunday. The part that does need a clock is Saturday evening, since the Ekadashi takes over from Dashami close to sunset, and that changes how the customary Dashami meal lines up with the tithi.

Mohini Ekadashi 2027 Kab Hai? (मोहिनी एकादशी 2027 कब है)

By the site’s lunar computation, the Shukla Ekadashi runs from 18:17 on 15 May to 17:13 on 16 May. No festival table carries a row for it, so these two instants come from the code that also produces the daily panchang; where that code and the DE421 tables can be set side by side, at 86 tithi changes, they differ by 1 minute at most.

Only one New Delhi sunrise lands inside that span. The daily table opens Saturday the 15th with Shukla Dashami at 05:30, Sunday the 16th with Shukla Ekadashi at 05:30, and Monday the 17th with Shukla Dwadashi at 05:29. For the Smarta almanacs, which want the Ekadashi at sunrise, the 16th is the only day that qualifies. The Vaishnava almanacs that follow the Hari Bhakti Vilasa add the arunodaya test, asking whether any Dashami survives into the 96 minutes before sunrise; here none does, since the Ekadashi begins the evening before and is more than eight hours old at arunodaya on the 16th in every one of the 38 cities the site computes. Both readings therefore land on Sunday.

Saturday’s Dashami Meal and an Early Ekadashi

The Ekadashi niyam lists ask for a single plain meal on Dashami, taken in daylight. Most years that is simply an early supper. This time the tithi itself turns at 18:17 on Saturday, while the sun is still up in many places: in New Delhi, where sunset is at 19:04, the last 47 minutes of daylight on the 15th already belong to the Ekadashi.

City by city the picture divides in two. In 20 of the 38 cities the Ekadashi opens at least half an hour before local sunset, by as much as 65 minutes in Jammu. In the other 18 (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Nagpur, Varanasi, Coimbatore, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Mysore, Ranchi, Madurai, Raipur and Thiruvananthapuram) the start falls within half an hour of sunset, before it or after it, and at Guwahati the computed sunset comes 15 minutes ahead of the tithi. A margin that small is too close for this page to say on which side of sunset the change falls, so it says nothing about those cities beyond the instant itself.

One reading holds everywhere: a Dashami meal finished before 18:17 is eaten in Dashami in every city. Whether a household that usually eats nearer sunset should bring the meal forward, or treats sunset as the line whatever the tithi is doing, is a matter for its own almanac and its own priest, and this page does not settle it. Sunset in other cities is listed on the city panchang pages, since the panchang calculator covers New Delhi and nowhere else.

Sunday Evening Already Belongs to Dwadashi

At the other end, the Ekadashi closes at 17:13 on the 16th, 112 minutes before the 19:05 sunset in New Delhi. The closest city is Guwahati, where it still ends 49 minutes before sunset. Through the evening and night of the fast, then, the tithi running is Dwadashi; the fast itself continues into the next morning as usual.

Parana on Monday 17 May (पारण)

The same computation gives Dwadashi from 17:13 on 16 May to 16:28 on 17 May. Almanacs that print a parana time keep the fast through Hari Vasara, the opening quarter of Dwadashi, and that quarter runs out before midnight on Sunday, hours ahead of the 05:29 sunrise on Monday. The other condition, that the fast be broken while Dwadashi lasts, leaves a wide window: in every city the Dwadashi carries on for more than ten hours after local sunrise on the 17th, ending in the late afternoon. A parana taken in the morning, after sunrise, meets both conditions.

Mohini Among Vaishakha’s Bright-Half Days

The fortnight around the fast, in order, from the site’s tables:

• New moon, 16:28 on 6 May: the fortnight opens.
• Saturday 8 May: Akshaya Tritiya, eight days before Mohini; the Tritiya also carries Parshuram Jayanti, whose two candidate days are argued on its own page.
• Wednesday 12 May: the only sunrise of the fortnight in Shukla Saptami, four days before the fast; the Ganga Saptami 2027 page works out the observance.
• Friday 14 May: the only sunrise in Shukla Navami, two days before; see Sita Navami 2027.
• Sunday 16 May: Mohini Ekadashi.
• Tuesday 18 May: Narasimha Jayanti, two days after the fast.
• Thursday 20 May: Buddha Purnima, four days after, ending with the full moon at 16:29.

The rest of the month’s vrats and festivals are in the May 2027 vrat and festival list.

Vaishakha Whichever Way the Month Is Counted

A Krishna Ekadashi can wear two month names, because purnimanta almanacs in the north start each month at a full moon and amanta almanacs in the west and south start it at a new moon. A Shukla Ekadashi sits in the half where the two agree, and the data for this one bear that out. The amanta month takes its name from the Sun’s sidereal sign at the new moon that opens it; at 16:28 on 6 May the Sun is in Aries, which makes the lunation Vaishakha. The Sun passes into Taurus on 15 May, the eve of the fast, but a sign change in mid-month does not rename a month already named. On the purnimanta side, Vaishakha starts at the Chaitra full moon of 03:57 on 21 April, which closes the Purnima the table keeps as Hanuman Jayanti on 20 April, and runs until the full moon of Buddha Purnima, so its second half is exactly this bright fortnight. The site’s festival rules agree, filing Akshaya Tritiya, Narasimha Jayanti and Buddha Purnima under Vaishakha. Both systems print Mohini as Vaishakha Shukla Ekadashi; the Vaishakh 2027 month page gives both reckonings’ start and end.

Where the Name Comes From, and the Vrat Katha

Mohini is the enchantress form of Vishnu in the Bhagavata Purana’s account of Samudra Manthan, the churning of the ocean: when the amrita rises and the asuras seize it, Vishnu appears as Mohini and, in that telling, holds them spellbound while the nectar is served to the devas. Vaishnava vrat books connect this Ekadashi with that form, and the name comes from them.

The vrat katha read on the day tells a different story. In it the sage Vasishtha, speaking to a grieving Rama, describes a merchant’s son named Dhrishtabuddhi who, cast out by his family for his conduct, wanders until he reaches the hermitage of the sage Kaundinya, who instructs him to keep the Vaishakha Shukla Ekadashi. The katha ends by stating what the fast wins for him, and that ending is the katha’s own. This page passes the story on as the katha tells it and makes no claim about what keeping the fast does.

Mohini Ekadashi 2027 in Brief

• Vrat day: Sunday 16 May 2027, the same in Smarta and Vaishnava reckoning
• Ekadashi tithi (computed): 18:17 on 15 May to 17:13 on 16 May
• Dashami meal: finished before 18:17 on 15 May is inside Dashami everywhere
• Parana: Monday 17 May 2027, after sunrise (05:29 in New Delhi) and before Dwadashi ends at 16:28
• New Delhi on 16 May: sunrise 05:30, sunset 19:05, nakshatra at sunrise Uttara Phalguni
• Month: Vaishakha Shukla, amanta and purnimanta alike

The Ekadashi 2027 list sets out every Ekadashi of the year, with the dates on which Smarta and Vaishnava calendars split. For the rest of the year see the 2027 festival calendar and the festival pages. In Hindi: मोहिनी एकादशी 2027: तारीख, पारण और शनिवार की दशमी-संध्या.