Parshuram Jayanti 2027: Saturday 8 May or Sunday 9 May?

Parshuram Jayanti (परशुराम जयंती) 2027 comes on Saturday 8 May in almanacs that date it by the Tritiya current in the evening, which puts it on the same day as Akshaya Tritiya. A calendar that dates it strictly by the tithi at sunrise prints Sunday 9 May instead. Both answers come from one and the same lunar day, Vaishakh Shukla Tritiya, which begins late on the morning of 8 May and ends at 09:03 the next morning. The sections below give the instants, test them against the sunset and sunrise of thirteen cities, and say plainly where the choice lies.

The Tritiya: 11:43 on 8 May to 09:03 on 9 May

Parashurama’s birthday is kept on the third lunar day of Vaishakha’s bright half. In a bright half the amanta and purnimanta calendars agree on the month name, so this one is Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya in either reckoning. The site’s 2027 festival table has no Parshuram Jayanti row, but it does have the Tritiya, on the Akshaya Tritiya row: it opens at 11:43 on Saturday 8 May and closes at 09:03 on Sunday 9 May, a run of 21 hours 20 min. The site’s tithi code reproduces both instants; across the 86 tabled instants it is checked against, the largest gap is 1 min. A tithi changes at a single moment for the whole of India. Sunrise and sunset do not, which is why the cities get their own table further down.

At New Delhi the daily panchang shows the shape of the problem in three rows:

• Saturday 8 May: sunrise 05:35 in Shukla Dwitiya. The Tritiya opens at 11:43, more than seven hours before the 19:00 sunset, and is still running when night falls.
• Sunday 9 May: sunrise 05:34 in Shukla Tritiya, which lasts only another 3 hours 29 min. By the 19:01 sunset the panchang reads Shukla Chaturthi.
• Monday 10 May: sunrise 05:33 in Shukla Chaturthi.

So the Tritiya holds the evening of 8 May and the dawn of 9 May, and of daylight only the hours after 11:43 on Saturday and before 09:03 on Sunday. Which of those two it is dated by depends on the rule.

Evening or Sunrise: How Each Calendar Gets Its Day

The evening reading. Many north Indian almanacs date Parshuram Jayanti by the Tritiya at pradosh, the stretch of evening that begins at sunset. On that reading only one evening qualifies. On Saturday 8 May the Tritiya has been running since late morning when the Sun sets, and it carries on through the night. On Sunday 9 May it has ended hours before dusk. An almanac working this way prints 8 May.

The sunrise reading. The general default of the Hindu calendar is udaya tithi: whichever tithi is current at sunrise names the day. The only sunrise inside this Tritiya is that of Sunday 9 May, so a calendar that applies the default without a festival-specific exception prints 9 May. On that day the tithi is gone by mid-morning.

Neither reading is a miscalculation; they ask the sky different questions. Which one a family follows is settled by its own custom and by the almanac its priest uses, and this page does not rank them. What the numbers do settle is that the split is not a near thing: neither end of the Tritiya falls within hours of any listed city’s sunset or sunrise, so local longitude cannot move it.

Thirteen Cities, Four Readings Each

Every city below was tested at its own sunrise and sunset on both days, using the solar routine behind the site’s city panchang pages. The list leans north and west, the region of the almanacs that use the evening reading, with Goa and Kolkata at its two edges.

There is no east–west split this year. Every city has the Dwitiya at its first sunrise, the Tritiya at its first sunset and its second sunrise, and the Chaturthi at its second sunset. Kolkata, with the earliest sunset on the list, still sees the Tritiya begin 6 hours 23 min before dusk. Goa, whose 9 May sunrise at 06:07 is the latest here, still meets the Tritiya at dawn with 2 hours 56 min left on it. So the evening rule gives 8 May in all thirteen places, and the sunrise rule gives 9 May in all of them.

Beside Akshaya Tritiya

The two festivals share a tithi, and the Akshaya Tritiya 2027 page notes that the tradition counts that day as Parashurama’s birth anniversary. They do not share a rule. The festival table fixes Akshaya Tritiya by the tithi at madhyahna, the middle part of the day, and puts it on Saturday 8 May. The evening reading for Parshuram Jayanti lands on the same Saturday, so in almanacs that use it the two are kept together. A calendar that dates the Jayanti by sunrise separates them by a day, Akshaya Tritiya on 8 May and Parshuram Jayanti on 9 May. If your calendar shows the two a day apart, this is the reason, and it is not a printing error.

This page gives no muhurat, no lagna window and no buying time for either day; the instants above are tithi boundaries and sunrise and sunset, nothing more.

Who Parashurama Is in the Texts

The name joins parashu, an axe, to Rama. Vaishnava tradition counts Parashurama as the sixth avatar of Vishnu, between Vamana and Rama of Ayodhya. In the Mahabharata he is the son of the sage Jamadagni and of Renuka, and the epic’s account makes him the teacher of arms to three of its great warriors, Bhishma, Drona and Karna. The Bhagavata Purana also lists him among the avatars. This page does not retell the longer stories attached to him, which differ between the epic, the Puranas and regional tradition.

How the Day Is Kept

Households that observe the Jayanti commonly do so with a puja to Parashurama and, in some families, a fast for the day. The details, from the offerings to whether and when the fast is broken, come from family custom and the local almanac, and they vary. In the custom’s own account the day honours Parashurama’s birth; this page makes no claim about what keeping the puja or the fast does for anyone who keeps it.

Parshuram Jayanti 2027 in Brief

• Evening (pradosh) reading: Saturday 8 May, the day of Akshaya Tritiya
• Sunrise reading: Sunday 9 May
• Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya: 11:43 on 8 May to 09:03 on 9 May
• New Delhi: sunset 19:00 on 8 May, sunrise 05:34 on 9 May
• City split: none; all thirteen cities give the same pair of answers

Later in the same fortnight, the Vaishakha Shukla Chaturdashi brings Narasimha Jayanti 2027, which the festival table puts on Tuesday 18 May. The month as a whole is laid out on the Vaishakh month 2027 page, and the May 2027 vrat and tyohar list has the month’s other observances. If the difference between a sunrise tithi and an evening tithi is new to you, how to read a panchang covers it, and the Akshaya Tritiya 2026 page shows the same tithi in a different year. Sunrise and sunset for your own town are on the panchang tool, and the festival hub indexes the dated festivals. In Hindi: परशुराम जयंती 2027 कब है: शनिवार 8 मई या रविवार 9 मई.