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Padmini Ekadashi 2026

पद्मिनी एकादशी

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Padmini Ekadashi comes only in the years that have an extra month. Because it is rare, many people treat it as a special chance to keep a fast with full attention.

Pujas for Padmini Ekadashi, in order

Vishnu Puja

विष्णु पूजाMorning, after bath

Vishnu is worshipped as the one who keeps the world in order, with tulsi and yellow flowers.

You will need
  • Vishnu idol or Shaligram
  • Tulsi leaves
  • Yellow flowers
  • Panchamrit
  • Ghee diya
  • Incense
Steps
  1. Bathe the idol or Shaligram with panchamrit.
  2. Offer tulsi leaves and yellow flowers.
  3. Chant the mantra 108 times.
  4. Sing the aarti.
Mantraॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवायom namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Aarti: Om Jai Jagdish Hare

ॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे।
भक्त जनों के संकट, दास जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे॥

जो ध्यावे फल पावे, दुःख बिनसे मन का, स्वामी दुःख बिनसे मन का।
सुख सम्पत्ति घर आवे, कष्ट मिटे तन का॥

मात पिता तुम मेरे, शरण गहूं मैं किसकी, स्वामी शरण गहूं मैं किसकी।
तुम बिन और न दूजा, आस करूं मैं जिसकी॥

तुम पूरण परमात्मा, तुम अन्तर्यामी, स्वामी तुम अन्तर्यामी।
पारब्रह्म परमेश्वर, तुम सब के स्वामी॥

तुम करुणा के सागर, तुम पालनकर्ता, स्वामी तुम पालनकर्ता।
मैं सेवक तुम स्वामी, कृपा करो भर्ता॥

तुम हो एक अगोचर, सबके प्राणपति, स्वामी सबके प्राणपति।
किस विधि मिलूं दयामय, तुमको मैं कुमति॥

दीन बन्धु दुःख हर्ता, ठाकुर तुम मेरे, स्वामी रक्षक तुम मेरे।
अपने हाथ उठाओ, अपने शरण लगाओ, द्वार पड़ा तेरे॥

विषय विकार मिटाओ, पाप हरो देवा, स्वामी पाप हरो देवा।
श्रद्धा भक्ति बढ़ाओ, सन्तन की सेवा॥

Add your own deity

Many families also worship their own deity on a festival day. Each one opens a full guide with steps, mantra and aarti.

Vishnu Puja

विष्णु पूजाMorning, after bath

Vishnu is worshipped as the one who keeps the world in order, with tulsi and yellow flowers.

You will need
  • Vishnu idol or Shaligram
  • Tulsi leaves
  • Yellow flowers
  • Panchamrit
  • Ghee diya
  • Incense
Steps
  1. Bathe the idol or Shaligram with panchamrit.
  2. Offer tulsi leaves and yellow flowers.
  3. Chant the mantra 108 times.
  4. Sing the aarti.
Mantraॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवायom namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Aarti: Om Jai Jagdish Hare

ॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे।
भक्त जनों के संकट, दास जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे॥

जो ध्यावे फल पावे, दुःख बिनसे मन का, स्वामी दुःख बिनसे मन का।
सुख सम्पत्ति घर आवे, कष्ट मिटे तन का॥

मात पिता तुम मेरे, शरण गहूं मैं किसकी, स्वामी शरण गहूं मैं किसकी।
तुम बिन और न दूजा, आस करूं मैं जिसकी॥

तुम पूरण परमात्मा, तुम अन्तर्यामी, स्वामी तुम अन्तर्यामी।
पारब्रह्म परमेश्वर, तुम सब के स्वामी॥

तुम करुणा के सागर, तुम पालनकर्ता, स्वामी तुम पालनकर्ता।
मैं सेवक तुम स्वामी, कृपा करो भर्ता॥

तुम हो एक अगोचर, सबके प्राणपति, स्वामी सबके प्राणपति।
किस विधि मिलूं दयामय, तुमको मैं कुमति॥

दीन बन्धु दुःख हर्ता, ठाकुर तुम मेरे, स्वामी रक्षक तुम मेरे।
अपने हाथ उठाओ, अपने शरण लगाओ, द्वार पड़ा तेरे॥

विषय विकार मिटाओ, पाप हरो देवा, स्वामी पाप हरो देवा।
श्रद्धा भक्ति बढ़ाओ, सन्तन की सेवा॥

Add your own deity

Many families also worship their own deity on a festival day. Each one opens a full guide with steps, mantra and aarti.

Other mantras for the day

  • ॐ क्ष्रौं नमो नरसिंहाय om kshraum namo narasimhaya

Padmini Ekadashi 2026: date and timings

Padmini Ekadashi 2026 has passed. The next date is added here as soon as it is worked out.

Date
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Tithi
Adhik Jyeshtha Shukla Ekadashi
Ekadashi begins
5:12 AM, 26 May
Ekadashi ends
6:22 AM, 27 May
Parana (breaking the fast)
5:24 AM to 7:58 AM (28 May)
Sunrise
5:25 AM
Sunset
7:11 PM

Times for New Delhi (IST). Use the city button above for your own city.

How to observe

  1. Take a light meal before sunset on Dashami.
  2. Keep Ekadashi free of grains, taking fruit and milk, or nirjala by choice. People with health conditions, pregnant women, the elderly and children can keep it with fruit and water instead.
  3. Worship Vishnu with tulsi and, if you can find one, a lotus flower.
  4. Spend the evening in kirtan or in reciting Vishnu's names.
  5. Break the fast on Dwadashi within the parana time shown.

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About Padmini Ekadashi

The Hindu calendar follows the moon, and twelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of the solar year. To keep the festivals in their seasons, an extra month, called Adhik maas, is added roughly every three years. It is also known as Purushottam maas, the month of Vishnu, and is set aside for prayer, reading and giving rather than for weddings and other new undertakings. Padmini Ekadashi, also called Kamala Ekadashi, is the Ekadashi of its bright half.

The story, as Krishna tells it to Yudhishthira, is about a king of Mahishmati and his queens. He had everything but a child, and after years of prayer he left for the forest to do penance, with his queen Padmini beside him. When their efforts brought no result, Padmini asked the wise Anasuya for guidance. Anasuya told her of the Ekadashi of the bright half of the extra month and how to keep it. Padmini kept it with full devotion, and the story says that in time she gave birth to a son, remembered as Kartavirya Arjuna, the king with a thousand arms.

Since the Adhik month is a whole month given to Vishnu, Padmini Ekadashi sits at its heart. Many people who do not usually fast choose to keep this one. Temples hold readings and kirtan through the month, and households often add a little extra giving, such as food, lamps or clothes, in the spirit of the season.

The fast is kept the usual way: a light meal on Dashami evening, no grains or rice on Ekadashi, fruit and milk or a nirjala fast by choice, Vishnu puja with tulsi and lotus or other flowers, and bhajan at night. It is broken the next morning on Dwadashi, after Hari Vasara, in the parana time shown above.

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