Parivartini Ekadashi 2027: 11 September Date and Parana

The 2027 date for Parivartini Ekadashi, which Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh know as Jal Jhulni Ekadashi, is Saturday, 11 September 2027. The fast is broken on Sunday the 12th. This year the tithi is longer than a day, 26 hours 36 minutes by the site’s reckoning, and it overlaps two evenings: it has already begun when the sun sets on Friday and is still running when it sets on Saturday. Even so, only one sunrise falls inside it, so there is a single fast day for every calendar this page checks.

More Than a Day of Ekadashi, and Only One Dawn (परिवर्तिनी एकादशी)

The site’s lunar code puts the Shukla Ekadashi between 17:00 on Friday 10 September and 19:36 on Saturday 11 September. There is no Parivartini row in the generated festival tables, so both instants were computed for this page. The same code has been compared with the DE421 tables at the 86 tithi instants they carry, and the largest gap found was 1 minute.

The daily table for New Delhi shows how the sunrises fall. Friday the 10th dawns at 06:03 in Shukla Dashami, which had started at 14:39 on Thursday 9 September. Saturday the 11th dawns at 06:03 in Shukla Ekadashi, and Sunday the 12th at 06:04 in Shukla Dwadashi. The Ekadashi arrives late on Friday afternoon, many hours after that morning’s sunrise in every city, and gives way on Saturday evening, long before Sunday’s sunrise. Every one of the 38 panchang cities therefore has the 11th as its only Ekadashi sunrise, and even at the latest of those sunrises more than twelve hours of the tithi remain.

Households that eat a single plain meal on the eve and want it to fall within Shukla Dashami should finish it before 17:00 on Friday. The Vaishnava almanacs that follow the Hari Bhakti Vilasa also look at arunodaya, the stretch of about 96 minutes before sunrise, and move the fast if Shukla Dashami is still current then. That cannot happen this year: by arunodaya on Saturday the Ekadashi has been running for more than ten hours, with the smallest lead in Guwahati. Smarta and Vaishnava calendars therefore name the same Saturday.

Two Evenings That Fall Inside the Tithi

On Friday the 10th the Ekadashi begins while the sun is still up in every city on the list. In New Delhi, where sunset is at 18:32, the lead is 1 hour 32 minutes. It is widest in Ahmedabad and Jodhpur, at 1 hour 48 minutes, and narrowest in Guwahati, where the sun sets first, at 17:33; there the tithi is only 33 minutes ahead of sunset, so that one comparison sits close to the line. None of this changes the date. A sunrise calendar files Friday under Shukla Dashami, because that is the tithi its dawn belongs to.

At the other end, the tithi lasts past sunset on Saturday. New Delhi sees the sun go down at 18:31 with 1 hour 5 minutes of Ekadashi still to run. The cities swap places here: the margin is smallest in Ahmedabad and Jodhpur, at 49 minutes, and largest in Guwahati, at 2 hours 4 minutes. Every city keeps at least 30 minutes in hand, so the evening worship of the fast day falls inside the Ekadashi everywhere, and the Shukla Dwadashi begins only after dark.

Families keep the day in different ways, from avoiding grain to taking neither food nor water until the parana; the forms are listed on the Ekadashi vrat niyam page. If you are pregnant, have a medical condition or take medicine on a schedule, check with your doctor before you fast.

Hari Vasara Clears Before Dawn: The Sunday Parana (पारण)

The Shukla Dwadashi that follows is long as well, running from 19:36 on Saturday 11 September to 22:13 on Sunday 12 September. Vrat manuals ask that the fast not be broken during Hari Vasara, the first quarter of the Shukla Dwadashi. With a tithi of 26 hours 37 minutes, that quarter is over in the small hours of Sunday, after midnight and well before daybreak. In every city it has ended more than two hours before sunrise, and the city with the shortest gap is Guwahati.

The closing limit is just as loose. The Shukla Dwadashi lasts until 22:13, after sunset on Sunday in all 38 cities, so it puts no practical limit on the parana anywhere. The custom is still to break the fast in the morning, after sunrise (06:04 in New Delhi), rather than wait for the end of the tithi. New Delhi is the only place the panchang calculator computes the day for; sunrise and sunset in other cities for 2026 and 2027 can be looked up on the city panchang pages.

Parsva, Padma, Vamana, Jal Jhulni: One Day, Several Names (जलझूलनी एकादशी)

Parivartini means “of the turning” and Parsva means “of the side”. Both names come from the Puranic tradition about Chaturmas, the four months it counts as Vishnu’s sleep, which open with Devshayani Ekadashi and close with Dev Uthani Ekadashi. That tradition holds that partway through the sleep Vishnu turns from one side to the other, and it places the turning on this Ekadashi. In 2027 the site’s table has Devshayani on Wednesday 14 July and Dev Uthani on Wednesday 10 November, so Parivartini comes 59 days after the first and 60 days before the second, close to the middle. The Chaturmas 2027 page covers the whole period.

Some calendars call the day Padma Ekadashi, and others Vamana Ekadashi, after the story the vrat books attach to it. In Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh it is Jal Jhulni Ekadashi, a name that refers to the local custom of carrying an image of Krishna in procession to water. How that is done differs from town to town, and this page does not try to describe any particular one.

Bhadrapada Shukla Under Both Reckonings

The fortnight starts at the new moon at 23:11 on Tuesday 31 August, when the Sun is in sidereal Leo. Amanta calendars name a month after the Sun’s sign at its opening new moon, and a Leo new moon opens Bhadrapada. Purnimanta calendars begin their Bhadrapada a fortnight earlier, at the previous full moon, so a bright fortnight carries the same month name in both systems. Parivartini is the Bhadrapada Shukla Ekadashi whether a family’s almanac counts from the new moon or the full moon. The Bhadrapada 2027 page sets out where each version of the month begins and ends.

It is a busy fortnight. Ganesh Chaturthi falls on Saturday 4 September, seven days before the fast, and the festival tables file it under Bhadrapada shukla, the same fortnight. Anant Chaturdashi follows three days after Parivartini, on Tuesday 14 September, and Pitru Paksha opens the next day, Wednesday 15 September. The full moon at 04:33 on Thursday 16 September ends the bright half. No other Ekadashi sunrise falls between Ganesh Chaturthi and that full moon. The next one is Indira Ekadashi on Sunday 26 September, fifteen days later, in the dark fortnight of the ancestors.

Vamana and King Bali: The Story in the Vrat Books

The vrat books that collect the Ekadashi stories credit this one to the Brahmavaivarta Purana and frame it, like the others in the series, as a conversation between Krishna and Yudhishthira. The story is the familiar one of Vamana. In their telling, Bali, a generous king of the asuras, has come to rule the three worlds; Vishnu comes to him as Vamana, a dwarf brahmin, and asks for as much land as he can cover in three steps. Bali agrees. Vamana then grows until two steps take in the earth and the heavens, and Bali offers his own head for the third. The books go on to say what keeping this Ekadashi earns. That part is theirs, and this page repeats the story as the katha tells it without claiming anything about what the fast does for the people who keep it.

Parivartini 2027 at a Glance

• Fast day: Saturday 11 September 2027, the same day on Smarta and Vaishnava reckoning
• Ekadashi (computed): 17:00 on Friday 10 September to 19:36 on Saturday 11 September, 26 hours 36 minutes
• Eve: Friday 10 September dawns in Shukla Dashami, which ends at 17:00
• Dwadashi (computed): 19:36 on Saturday 11 September to 22:13 on Sunday 12 September
• Parana: Sunday 12 September 2027, in the morning after sunrise (06:04 in New Delhi); Hari Vasara is already over
• Month: Bhadrapada Shukla in amanta and purnimanta calendars alike
• New Delhi on 11 September: sunrise 06:03, sunset 18:31, nakshatra at sunrise Uttara Ashadha

Every Ekadashi of the year is on the Ekadashi 2027 list. The month’s other observances are on the September 2027 vrat and festival list, and the full year is in the 2027 festival calendar. In Hindi: परिवर्तिनी एकादशी 2027: 11 सितम्बर की तारीख और पारण.