Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027: Date and the Short Dwadashi

The bright-fortnight Ekadashi of Pausha is kept on Tuesday, 19 January 2027. In New Delhi the date is not in doubt, but what surrounds it is unusual: the Ekadashi is only just present at sunrise, the Dwadashi that should carry the parana never reaches a sunrise at all, and the day falls after the winter Kharmas has ended, which settles whether it can be the Vaikuntha Ekadashi of the south.

Pausha Putrada and Its Namesake (पौष पुत्रदा एकादशी)

Putrada translates as “giver of a son”. That is the name’s meaning and nothing more here: this page attaches no outcome to the fast. The name is shared. A second Putrada falls in the bright half of Shravana, and in 2027 the daily table puts that Shukla Ekadashi at sunrise on Thursday 12 August 2027. The Ekadashi 2027 list gives both, each with its month.

A bright-fortnight Ekadashi carries the same month name in every Indian reckoning, so there is no amanta-purnimanta split to untangle. This lunation opens with the new moon at 01:54 on 8 January, the close of Paush Amavasya, when the Sun still stands in sidereal Sagittarius, and a lunar month that begins with the Sun in Sagittarius is Pausha. It closes at the full moon of Paush Purnima, Friday 22 January.

An Ekadashi Only Just Present at Sunrise

The Shukla Ekadashi runs from 10:27 on 18 January to 07:49 on 19 January. Both instants come from the site’s lunar code rather than from a festival row, and that code agrees with the DE421 tables to within 1 minute across the 86 tithi instants available for a check.

The 18th dawns on Shukla Dashami; the Ekadashi begins that morning, well after sunrise, so it holds no sunrise on that day. On the 19th the New Delhi sun rises at 07:14 and the Ekadashi is still running, with 35 minutes left. On the sunrise reading of the Smarta almanacs, that makes the 19th the fast day, and it is the only candidate: nowhere else does the tithi meet a sunrise. The margin clears this page’s 30-minute threshold for a ruling from computed instants, but not by much.

The Vaishnava test points to the same morning. It asks whether Dashami still lingers at arunodaya, about 96 minutes before sunrise, and here it is long gone: the Ekadashi will have been running for more than nineteen hours by then. Whether a Vaishnava calendar applies any further rule to an Ekadashi that ends so soon after dawn is that calendar’s own question; the site’s tables do not decide it.

West of Delhi, the Margin Is Too Close to Call

The tithi ends at one instant across India; sunrise does not, and in January it comes later to the west and north. Computing sunrise for each of the 38 cities in the site’s panchang, the Ekadashi is still current at every one of them, but in Jammu, Amritsar, Jodhpur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Udaipur it outlasts sunrise by less than 30 minutes, as little as 17 minutes in Jammu. For those cities this page declines to say from its own figures that the Ekadashi holds the morning. In the east the question does not arise; Guwahati, where the sun rises earliest, has 98 minutes to spare. A local panchang for your own town settles it. The panchang calculator computes the day for New Delhi alone; the sunrise in other cities is on the city panchang pages.

A Dwadashi That Never Reaches a Sunrise (पारण)

Dwadashi starts the moment the Ekadashi ends, at 07:49 on 19 January, and by the same computation it ends at 04:41 on 20 January, in the small hours, so the 20th dawns on Shukla Trayodashi. This holds for every city in the list above: the Dwadashi is gone at least 90 minutes before the local sunrise. The whole of this Dwadashi lies inside the fast day and the night after it.

That is the difficulty. The parana custom asks for the fast to be broken on Dwadashi, after sunrise, and almanacs that publish a parana window also avoid Hari Vasara, Dwadashi’s first fourth, which this time runs into the early afternoon of the 19th itself. With no Dwadashi morning on the 20th, the usual instruction has nothing to point at. Calendars that print a parana for this Ekadashi have to make a ruling of their own here, and this page does not make one for them. Take the parana from the panchang or the purohit your household already follows.

After the Kharmas, and Not the Margazhi Ekadashi

The table’s Dhanu Kharmas covers 16 December 2026 to 14 January 2027, the Sun’s month in Sagittarius, and it closes with the Sun’s sidereal crossing into Capricorn at 21:05 on 14 January, after nightfall. The two Ekadashis before this one fall inside it: Mokshada on 20 December 2026 and the Saphala Ekadashi of 3 January. Pausha Putrada comes five days after the crossing, so it is the first Ekadashi after the window closes. The Kharmas page explains what the window holds back.

The same crossing answers the Vaikuntha question. As the Mokshada Ekadashi 2026 page sets out, the Shukla Ekadashi that the Sri Vaishnava temples keep as Vaikuntha Ekadashi is the one falling in the Tamil solar month of Margazhi, the Sun in Sagittarius, and that page notes that Mokshada 2026 sits inside that window. The lunar month here is still Pausha, because it begins while the Sun is in Sagittarius, but the Sun has moved on by the 19th. Whichever civil day a solar calendar assigns the crossing to, the 19th is five days past it. This Pausha Putrada is not the Margazhi Ekadashi.

The pairing is not fixed. The winter after, it is reversed: Mokshada falls on Thursday 9 December 2027, before the next Dhanu window opens on 16 December 2027, and the Pausha bright-fortnight Ekadashi of January 2028 falls inside it, with the Sun still in Sagittarius. That instance is beyond the range of the site’s daily tables, so it is given by month only, and the temples set the Vaikuntha day from their own almanacs; this page sets no Vaikuntha date.

Quick Reference

• Fast: Tuesday 19 January 2027
• Ekadashi tithi (computed): 10:27 on 18 January to 07:49 on 19 January
• Dwadashi (computed): 07:49 on 19 January to 04:41 on 20 January; no sunrise falls inside it
• Parana: no Dwadashi morning; follow your own panchang’s ruling
• New Delhi sunrise and sunset on 19 January: 07:14 and 17:49; nakshatra at sunrise Rohini
• Shravana Putrada 2027: Thursday 12 August 2027

Fourteen days after this one comes the dark-fortnight Ekadashi, set out on the Shattila Ekadashi 2027 page. The rest of the year is in the 2027 festival calendar and on the computed festival pages. In Hindi: पौष पुत्रदा एकादशी 2027: तारीख और छोटी द्वादशी.