Shravana Putrada Ekadashi 2027: 12 August Date, Parana

The Ekadashi of Sawan’s bright fortnight, Shravana Putrada, is kept on Thursday, 12 August 2027, and the fast is broken on Friday, 13 August 2027. This year the date is the same in every city the site computes. What needs a closer look is the parana: the Dwadashi that follows is more than a day long, its opening quarter reaches well into the Friday morning, and its end falls so near the next dawn that in several cities the minutes alone cannot say which side of sunrise it lands on.

An Ekadashi From Night to Night (श्रावण पुत्रदा एकादशी)

The site’s lunar code puts the Shukla Ekadashi between 00:59 on 12 August and 03:00 on 13 August, so the tithi starts and finishes in the small hours and covers the whole civil day of the 12th between them. No festival row carries this Ekadashi, which is why the instants are computed on this page; checked against the DE421-derived tables at 86 tithi instants, the same code has never differed by more than 1 minute.

Read at sunrise in the New Delhi daily table, the three mornings are Shukla Dashami on Wednesday the 11th, Shukla Ekadashi on Thursday the 12th (sunrise 05:48, by which time the tithi is 4 hours 49 minutes old), and Shukla Dwadashi on Friday the 13th (sunrise 05:49). Only one dawn falls inside the Ekadashi, so almanacs that fast on the day the tithi holds at sunrise all arrive at the 12th.

Vaishnava calendars in the Hari Bhakti Vilasa line ask a stricter question, whether any Dashami remains at arunodaya, the stretch of about 96 minutes before sunrise. Here none does. Running the solar code for all 38 panchang cities, the Ekadashi has already been current for at least 2 hours 18 minutes when arunodaya begins on the 12th (the least is Guwahati’s, the most Goa’s at 3 hours 44 minutes). It also stays current past every city’s sunset that evening and is gone at least 1 hour 54 minutes before every sunrise on the 13th, so no city sees the tithi at two dawns. Both reckonings, everywhere on the list, give the same Thursday.

Wednesday the 11th Is Dashami From Dawn to Dusk

The Dashami begins at 23:28 on 10 August, late at night, and does not give way until 00:59 on the 12th. Every city’s sunrise and sunset on the 11th falls inside it, so a household that takes its single Dashami meal on the eve of the fast has the whole day in the right tithi this time, whether it reads the custom by tithi or by civil day. The Ekadashi vrat niyam page describes what that meal and the rest of the Dashami observance usually involve.

Parana on Friday, After Hari Vasara (पारण)

The Dwadashi opens at 03:00 on 13 August and, by the same computation, runs until 05:21 on 14 August: 26 hours 21 minutes in all. Every daylight hour of the 13th is therefore Dwadashi, in every city, and after even the latest sunset on the list the tithi still has 10 hours 3 minutes to run. The usual instruction, to break the fast after sunrise while Dwadashi is current, is met by the whole morning. Nothing at the closing end of the tithi hurries the parana.

The constraint sits at the opening end. Hari Vasara is the name for the first quarter of the Dwadashi, and almanacs that print a parana window keep the meal out of it. A Dwadashi this long has a long first quarter, and counted from 03:00 it carries on for hours after sunrise in every one of the 38 cities, ending well into the morning and before midday. Panchangs that observe the rule therefore open their parana later in the morning rather than at first light. This page prints no clock time for the end of Hari Vasara; the panchang your household follows gives its own window. The panchang tool is computed for a single place, New Delhi, so the figures it shows for the 13th are that city’s; sunrise elsewhere is on the city panchang pages.

The Dwadashi’s End and the 14 August Dawn

The Dwadashi ends at 05:21 on Saturday the 14th, close to that day’s sunrise across much of the north and east. In the cities where the sun comes up earliest, the order of the two events depends on a handful of minutes, and this page does not let a computed instant decide anything when the margin is under 30 minutes. Measured against each city’s own sunrise, the Dwadashi is clearly over before dawn on the 14th in twenty-three cities. In none does it clearly survive the sunrise. In the remaining fifteen the gap is under half an hour either way:

In Guwahati and Kolkata the computed sunrise comes before the Dwadashi ends, and in Patna the two fall on the same minute. On the bare figures those cities would see the Dwadashi at a second dawn, but the margins are far too small to rest that on, and this page draws no conclusion for them. New Delhi is in the same band, 28 minutes the other way, so for it the call comes from the daily table, which reads the tithi at sunrise off the ephemeris directly: Shukla Trayodashi on the 14th, and Shukla Trayodashi again on the 15th. In this fortnight it is the Trayodashi, not the Dwadashi, that holds two New Delhi sunrises.

For the ordinary parana none of this moves anything: a fast kept on the 12th is broken on the 13th, inside a Dwadashi that lasts the whole day. The reason to mention the 14th at all is that some Vaishnava calendars have rules of their own for a Dwadashi that reaches a second sunrise. This page does not apply them, and for the cities in the table above, where the computation is too close to call, the calendar your family follows is the place to look.

Between Nag Panchami and Raksha Bandhan

The lunation opens with the new moon at 15:35 on 2 August, with the Sun in sidereal Cancer, and a lunar month that begins under Cancer is Shravana in the amanta count. The north Indian purnimanta count begins its Shravana earlier, at the full moon of Guru Purnima on 18 July, and closes it at the next full moon. A bright fortnight sits inside both versions of the month, so here the two calendars agree and this is the Shravana Shukla Ekadashi in either. The Sawan 2027 page sets out where each version of the month starts and ends, and which Mondays fall in each.

The fortnight’s festivals put the fast in its place. Hariyali Teej comes first, on Wednesday 4 August, and Nag Panchami follows on Friday 6 August, six days before this Ekadashi. After it, the Shravana Purnima of Raksha Bandhan falls on Tuesday 17 August, five days on; that Purnima opens at 10:29 on 16 August and ends at 12:58 on the festival day, the full moon that closes the month in both counts. The Ekadashi before this one is Kamika, in the dark half after Guru Purnima, and it is a different case altogether: its tithi holds no New Delhi sunrise, so calendars divide over its day.

Putrada, Pavitra and the Thread Offering

Putrada translates as “giver of a son”. That is what the name means, and the page goes no further with it: it attaches no outcome to the fast and does not retell the vrat katha. The same name belongs to a second Ekadashi, the bright-fortnight one of Pausha, which the daily table puts on Tuesday 19 January 2027; the Pausha Putrada 2027 page covers it. Adding the month to the name keeps the two apart.

In Vaishnava temple custom this Ekadashi also goes by Pavitra or Pavitropana Ekadashi. The names point to pavitra, a garland of knotted thread, and to pavitraropana, the rite in which some temples offer such threads to the deity around this time of Shravana. That is a description of the custom as those temples keep it; the page makes no claim about what the offering or the fast does.

Shravana Putrada 2027 in Brief

• Fast: Thursday 12 August 2027, on Smarta and Vaishnava reckoning alike, in every city on the list
• Shukla Ekadashi (computed): 00:59 on 12 August to 03:00 on 13 August
• Dashami eve: Wednesday 11 August, Dashami through the whole day
• Shukla Dwadashi (computed): 03:00 on 13 August to 05:21 on 14 August
• Parana: Friday 13 August, after Hari Vasara, which runs well into the morning; take the window from your own panchang
• New Delhi on 12 August: sunrise 05:48, sunset 19:03, nakshatra at sunrise Jyeshtha
• Month: Shravana Shukla in amanta and purnimanta calendars

Five days after the fast comes Raksha Bandhan. The year’s other Ekadashis, with their months and any doubled or lost days, are in the Ekadashi 2027 list, and the August 2027 vrat and festival list puts this fast beside the rest of the month. In Hindi: श्रावण पुत्रदा एकादशी 2027: 12 अगस्त की तारीख और पारण.