Papmochani Ekadashi 2027: Friday 2 April, Parana on the 3rd

Papmochani Ekadashi in 2027 is kept on Friday, 2 April 2027, and the fast is broken on Saturday the 3rd. It is the dark-fortnight Ekadashi that comes after Holi, and the last one before the lunar year turns at Gudi Padwa. This year it is an easy one to place. The Dashami before it, the Ekadashi itself and the Dwadashi after it each last longer than a full day, so none of the usual tests comes anywhere near a boundary in any city the site computes. The one point that needs care is the morning of the 3rd, when Hari Vasara is still running after the sun is up.

Three Tithis, Each Longer Than a Day (पापमोचनी एकादशी)

The site’s lunar code gives the Krishna Ekadashi from 00:45 on 2 April to 02:52 on 3 April, a run of 26 hours 7 minutes. On either side are a Krishna Dashami that begins at 22:17 on 31 March and a Krishna Dwadashi that lasts until 04:27 on 4 April; even the shortest of the three is over twenty-five hours. Three long tithis in a row keep every changeover well away from the dawns that decide the fast. There is no festival-table row for Papmochani, so these instants are computed on this page; where the same code can be checked against the DE421-based tables, over 86 tithi instants, it stays within 1 minute.

Read at New Delhi’s sunrises, the daily table shows the sequence plainly: Krishna Dashami on Thursday 1 April at 06:11, Krishna Ekadashi on Friday 2 April at 06:10, Krishna Dwadashi on Saturday 3 April at 06:09, and Krishna Trayodashi by the morning of the 4th. Dashami, Ekadashi and Dwadashi each hold exactly one sunrise.

The Eve Stays Dashami Until After Midnight

Because the Ekadashi does not arrive until 00:45, the whole of Thursday 1 April, morning to night, belongs to Dashami. Households that take a single plain meal on the Dashami before an Ekadashi have nothing to work around this time. Across all 38 panchang cities the tithi changes more than five hours after the local sunset of the 1st; it is closest in Ahmedabad, at 5 hours 50 minutes. The Ekadashi vrat niyam page describes how the Dashami custom is usually kept.

The same Krishna Dashami is also the day of the Dasha Mata vrat, so in homes that keep it the eve of Papmochani is a vrat day in its own right.

Smarta and Vaishnava Calendars Both Land on Friday

The Smarta test asks which sunrise the Ekadashi holds. Only one does: at New Delhi on the 2nd the tithi still has 20 hours 42 minutes to go when the sun comes up, and by the next sunrise it has been gone for 3 hours 17 minutes. Nowhere on the city list is either margin thin. At every sunrise of the 2nd at least 20 hours 20 minutes of Ekadashi remain, the least being in Mumbai, and at least 2 hours 20 minutes separate the end of the tithi from the sunrise of the 3rd, the least being in Guwahati, where the sun rises earliest.

Vaishnava calendars in the Hari Bhakti Vilasa line move to arunodaya, about 96 minutes before sunrise, and set a fast aside if Dashami still lingers at that hour. On the 2nd Dashami has been over for hours. The thinnest margin on the list is Guwahati’s, where the Ekadashi is already 2 hours 52 minutes old at arunodaya. Both readings give Friday 2 April, and nothing here is close enough for this page to hold back a ruling in any city.

Parana on Saturday, Once Hari Vasara Is Over (पारण)

The fast is broken on the 3rd, after sunrise and while Dwadashi lasts. Dwadashi takes over at 02:52 on 3 April, holds the 06:09 sunrise in New Delhi, and runs through the whole of Saturday. In every city it is still current more than nine hours after the local sunset, and it ends at 04:27 on 4 April, before dawn on the 4th even in Guwahati, where the margin is 44 minutes. By the 4th’s sunrise the tithi is Krishna Trayodashi, so Saturday is the only day on which the parana can be taken inside Dwadashi.

What sets the start of the window is Hari Vasara, the first quarter of the Dwadashi. Panchangs that print a parana time keep it out of that quarter. With a Dwadashi more than a day long, the quarter is long too, and counted from 02:52 it does not finish at dawn: it runs on into the morning of the 3rd, more than two hours past sunrise in every city on the list and more than three and a half hours in Guwahati, and it is over well before midday. So a panchang that follows this rule will put the parana in the later part of the morning rather than straight after sunrise. The gap between sunrise and the end of Hari Vasara is narrowest in Mumbai, where the sun rises latest. This page gives no clock time for the end of Hari Vasara. Because the panchang tool is set up for New Delhi only, other cities’ sunrise and sunset are read from the city panchang pages, and the household’s almanac or purohit settles the exact hour of the meal.

Between Holi and Gudi Padwa: Phalguna or Chaitra?

The dark fortnight that holds this Ekadashi begins at the full moon, at 16:13 on 22 March. That Purnima is the one the site’s table uses for Holika Dahan on the evening of Sunday 21 March and Holi on Monday 22 March, both filed as Phalguna Purnima. Papmochani falls eleven days after Holi. The fortnight ends with the new moon of 05:21 on 7 April, and that day is Gudi Padwa and Ugadi, the Chaitra Shukla Pratipada kept as the first day of the lunar year, five days after the fast.

The month name depends on the calendar. An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the Sun’s sidereal sign at the new moon that opens it. This lunation opens on 8 March with the Sun in Aquarius, which makes it Phalguna, so in Maharashtra, Gujarat and much of the south Papmochani is the Phalguna Krishna Ekadashi, the last Ekadashi of the old year. A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon instead; its Chaitra opens when the Purnima ends on Holi afternoon, so in the north the same day is the Chaitra Krishna Ekadashi, and Gudi Padwa arrives in the middle of that Chaitra rather than at its start. The date is the same in both systems. The Phalgun 2027 and Chaitra 2027 month pages set out both versions of each month.

The Ekadashi before this one is Amalaki Ekadashi on Thursday 18 March, in the bright half before Holi; the one after it is Kamada Ekadashi on Saturday 17 April, the first of the new year. Each lies fifteen days from Papmochani. In the days between Holi and this fast come Rang Panchami on Saturday 27 March and Sheetala Ashtami, or Basoda, on Tuesday 30 March.

Medhavi and Manjughosha: The Story in the Vrat Katha

Papmochani means “one that frees from sin”. That is the meaning of the name; this page does not claim the fast does any such thing. The story read on the day comes, by the vrat books’ account, from the Bhavishyottara Purana. In it the young sage Medhavi, son of the rishi Chyavana, is keeping his austerities in the Chaitraratha forest when the apsara Manjughosha comes there and draws him away from them. A long time passes before he realises how far he has strayed, and in his anger he curses her to live as a pishachi. When she pleads with him, he tells her of the Krishna Ekadashi of this month; she keeps it, and Medhavi, on his father’s advice, keeps it too. The katha ends with the curse lifted. It is reported here as the katha’s own account, and the page makes no claim about what keeping the vrat does for anyone.

Papmochani 2027 in Brief

• Fast day: Friday 2 April 2027, by Smarta and Vaishnava reckoning alike
• Ekadashi (computed): 00:45 on 2 April to 02:52 on 3 April
• Eve: Thursday 1 April is Krishna Dashami from sunrise to past midnight
• Dwadashi (computed): 02:52 on 3 April to 04:27 on 4 April
• Parana: Saturday 3 April, after sunrise; panchangs that avoid Hari Vasara place it later in the morning
• New Delhi on 2 April: sunrise 06:10, sunset 18:39, nakshatra at sunrise Shravana
• Month: Phalguna Krishna (amanta); Chaitra Krishna (purnimanta)

Fifteen days later comes Kamada, and every other Ekadashi of the year is in the Ekadashi 2027 list. The month’s other observances are on the April 2027 vrat and tyohar list, and the computed festival pages cover the year’s major dates. In Hindi: पापमोचनी एकादशी 2027: शुक्रवार 2 अप्रैल, पारण शनिवार को.