Varuthini Ekadashi 2027: Sunday 2 May, Parana 3 May

Varuthini Ekadashi in 2027 is kept on Sunday, 2 May 2027, and the fast is opened on Monday 3 May. Both edges of this tithi sit in the evening. It takes over from Dashami at 18:54 on Saturday, within half an hour of sunset in most of the cities the site computes, and it gives way to Dwadashi at 19:52 on Sunday, after the sun has gone down in every one of them. Those two evenings, and a Monday on which Dwadashi lasts until after dark, are what this page works through, along with where the fast sits between Hanuman Jayanti and Akshaya Tritiya.

One Sunrise Inside the Tithi (वरूथिनी एकादशी)

The Krishna Ekadashi runs from 18:54 on Saturday 1 May to 19:52 on Sunday 2 May. Neither instant has a festival-table row behind it; both are worked out by the code that drives the site’s daily panchang, which, tested against the DE421 tables at 86 tithi changes, has not strayed from them by more than 1 minute.

Read at New Delhi sunrise, the daily table goes Krishna Dashami on Saturday (05:40), Krishna Ekadashi on Sunday (05:40) and Krishna Dwadashi on Monday (05:39). In each of the 38 panchang cities the sunrise of 2 May falls inside the Ekadashi and that of 1 May inside Dashami, so the Smarta custom of fasting on the day that dawns in Ekadashi picks Sunday with nothing to argue over; at local sunrise the tithi still has more than thirteen hours to run in every one of them.

Vaishnava almanacs on the Hari Bhakti Vilasa pattern add a stricter test, looking at arunodaya, about 96 minutes ahead of sunrise, for any trace of Dashami. There is none to find. The Ekadashi begins on the previous evening, so by arunodaya on 2 May it is more than eight hours old even in the city where that lead is shortest. Both schools print the same Sunday.

Saturday Evening: Dashami Ends Close to Sunset

Households that keep the Dashami niyam usually describe it as one simple meal on the day before the fast, with nothing eaten after dark; the Ekadashi vrat niyam page sets out how that custom is reported. Some families read it as “before sunset”, others as “while Dashami lasts”. Because a tithi can change at any hour, the two readings often part company. On Saturday 1 May the distance between them nearly vanishes, because the computed change from Dashami to Ekadashi, 18:54, lands within half an hour of sunset in most cities.

New Delhi shows how fine the margin is: its daily table puts sunset at 18:56, and the computed tithi change is 18:54. A gap that small is too fine to build a ruling on, so this page does not say on which side of New Delhi’s sunset the change falls. The same holds in 31 of the 38 cities, all those where local sunset is within 30 minutes of 18:54; for them the table below prints the sunset and marks the city close, and the page rules nothing further. No city on the list sees the Ekadashi begin 30 or more minutes before its sunset.

The other seven lie further east than New Delhi, and the sun sets earlier there: Chennai, Patna, Visakhapatnam, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata and Guwahati. There the Ekadashi arrives at least 31 minutes after local sunset (Chennai) and as much as 60 minutes after it (Guwahati), so all of Saturday’s daylight is Dashami. For every city, one statement is safe: a meal taken in daylight and finished before 18:54 falls in Dashami. How a family applies its own rule on a close evening is for its almanac and its purohit to settle, not this page.

Sunday: The Ekadashi Outlasts Sunset

At the far end the margins are comfortable. In New Delhi the sun sets at 18:56 on 2 May and the Ekadashi carries on for another 56 minutes. No city comes within half an hour of the line: the narrowest gap is 40 minutes in Jammu and the widest 117 minutes in Guwahati. So in every one of the 38 cities, all of Sunday from sunrise to sunset lies inside the tithi the fast is named for, and Dwadashi begins only after sunset.

The form the fast takes, whether grain is simply left out or food and water are given up altogether, is family custom. Before attempting a waterless or otherwise strict version, anyone who is pregnant, has a medical condition or takes regular medication should check with a doctor.

Hari Vasara Is Over Before Monday’s Dawn

Almanacs that publish a parana time hold the fast through Hari Vasara, reckoned as the first quarter of Dwadashi. With Dwadashi opening at 19:52 on Sunday evening, that quarter carries past midnight and closes in the small hours of Monday. The page gives only that part of the night, not a clock time. What matters for the parana is the gap that follows: Hari Vasara is spent more than two hours before sunrise in every city, the tightest being Guwahati, where the sun is up earliest on 3 May. By dawn nothing stands between the household and the parana except the sunrise itself.

A Long Parana Day on Monday 3 May (पारण)

The parana custom asks for the fast to be broken after sunrise and before Dwadashi runs out. This year the second condition hardly bites. Dwadashi lasts until 20:04 on Monday 3 May, which is after sunset that day in every city on the list, by at least 51 minutes (Jammu). Counted from local sunrise, the Dwadashi still to run is 13h 54m in Goa, the least, and 15h 20m in Guwahati, the most; New Delhi, with sunrise at 05:39, has 14h 25m.

The long window does not move the custom, which in the vrat manuals is a morning parana. It only means that a parana taken later in the morning is still well inside Dwadashi. Sunrise is the one local quantity here. The free panchang tool is a New Delhi calendar; through 2026 and 2027 the sunrise and sunset of other cities are given on the city panchang pages, and what is eaten first is a matter of family practice.

City Figures for the Three Days

Every figure is computed from each city’s latitude and longitude; the tithi instants are the same everywhere. “Close” means local sunset on 1 May is within 30 minutes of 18:54, and the page draws no conclusion there.

Between Hanuman Jayanti and Akshaya Tritiya

The waning fortnight that holds Varuthini opens with the full moon at 03:57 on Wednesday 21 April. The Purnima it completes is the one the 2027 festival table keeps as Hanuman Jayanti on Tuesday 20 April, twelve days ahead of the fast. The fortnight ends with the new moon at 16:28 on Thursday 6 May, the day the daily table opens with Amavasya, and two days after that comes Akshaya Tritiya on Saturday 8 May, six days after Varuthini, filed in the festival rules as Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya. The Akshaya Tritiya 2027 page explains the midday rule behind its date, and the Parshuram Jayanti 2027 page takes up the two readings of the same Tritiya.

Varuthini is the only Ekadashi sunrise anywhere between those two festivals. The one before it, Kamada Ekadashi on Saturday 17 April, is fifteen days earlier, and the one after, Mohini Ekadashi on Sunday 16 May, follows fourteen days later.

Chaitra Krishna or Vaishakha Krishna

The fast has two month names, and which one an almanac prints depends only on where it starts its months. Amanta calendars, used in Gujarat, Maharashtra and the south, run from new moon to new moon and name each month by the Sun’s sidereal sign at the opening new moon. This lunation opens at 05:21 on Wednesday 7 April with the Sun in Pisces, which makes it Chaitra; the Ekadashi 2027 list, which names months this way, files Varuthini as Chaitra Krishna Ekadashi, and amanta Chaitra lasts until the 6 May new moon.

Purnimanta calendars, the usual north Indian pattern, run from full moon to full moon. For them Chaitra closes with Hanuman Jayanti’s Purnima, the festival rules’ Chaitra full moon, and the month that opens at 03:57 on Wednesday 21 April is Vaishakha, so the same fast is Vaishakha Krishna Ekadashi there. By that full moon the Sun has already moved on into Aries, and it is still there at the fast and at the new moon that ends the fortnight. That does not turn the amanta month into Vaishakha early: an amanta month keeps the name it took at its opening new moon, and amanta Vaishakha begins with the 6 May new moon, when the Sun is in Aries. The Chaitra 2027 and Vaishakh 2027 month pages give both reckonings’ boundaries.

King Mandhata on the Narmada: The Vrat Katha

The name is usually explained from varutha, a word for armour or a protective covering. That is a gloss on a word, and this page does not say the fast protects anyone. The story read on the day comes, the vrat books say, from the Bhavishyottara Purana. Its central figure is Mandhata, a king whose realm lay on the banks of the Narmada. In the katha he is deep in tapas in the forest when a wild animal attacks him; he keeps to his vow and does not strike back, and he is afterwards directed to keep this Ekadashi at Mathura.

The katha closes by listing the merit it ascribes to the fast. That list is the text’s own, reported here as the text’s; the page makes no claim about what keeping Varuthini does for anyone.

The Same Ekadashi in Pushti Marg Homes

Households of the Pushti Marg, the sampradaya that traces itself to Vallabhacharya, mark this Ekadashi as his birth anniversary. That is the sampradaya’s own observance, reported as such; this page ties it to no date other than the Ekadashi itself, and how the day is kept in a haveli or a home is for that tradition to describe.

Quick Reference

• Fast: Sunday 2 May 2027, by Smarta and Vaishnava rules alike
• Ekadashi (computed): 18:54 on Saturday 1 May to 19:52 on Sunday 2 May
• Saturday evening (New Delhi): sunset 18:56, tithi change 18:54; close, not ruled on
• Dwadashi (computed): 19:52 on Sunday 2 May to 20:04 on Monday 3 May
• Parana: Monday 3 May 2027, after local sunrise (05:39 in New Delhi); Dwadashi lasts past sunset
• New Delhi on 2 May: sunrise 05:40, sunset 18:56, nakshatra at sunrise Purva Bhadrapada
• Month: Chaitra Krishna (amanta), Vaishakha Krishna (purnimanta)

Fourteen days on comes Mohini; the full year is in the Ekadashi 2027 list, the month’s other observances are on the May 2027 vrat and festival list, and the computed festival dates are under festivals. In Hindi: वरूथिनी एकादशी 2027: रविवार 2 मई, पारण 3 मई.