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Vrat · Paush Shukla Ekadashi

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027

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Monday 18 January 2027 · in 79 days

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Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of couples who hope for a child. It is kept quietly, often by husband and wife together.

Parana muhurat1:35 PM to 3:42 PM

On 19 January, after sunrise and Hari Vasara, before Dwadashi ends. Ekadashi runs from 10:28 AM on 18 Jan to 7:50 AM on 19 Jan.

Delhi · times in IST

Pujas for Pausha Putrada 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॥

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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

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027: date and timings

Date
Monday 18 January 2027
Tithi
Paush Shukla Ekadashi
Ekadashi begins
10:28 AM, 18 January
Ekadashi ends
7:50 AM, 19 January
Parana (breaking the fast)
1:35 PM to 3:42 PM (19 January)
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:48 PM

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

How to observe

  1. Take a light meal on Dashami evening, together if you keep it as a couple.
  2. Keep Ekadashi without grains, taking fruit and milk or keeping it nirjala. People with health conditions, pregnant women, the elderly and children can keep it with fruit and water instead.
  3. Worship Vishnu, or Bal Gopal, with tulsi, a lamp and a sweet made with milk.
  4. Sit together for bhajan in the evening.
  5. Break the fast on Dwadashi within the parana time shown.

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About Pausha Putrada Ekadashi

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi falls on the eleventh day of the bright half of Paush. There are two Putrada Ekadashis in the year, this one in winter and another in Shravan during the monsoon, and both carry the same hope: the name means 'giver of a child'. Couples who are waiting for a child often keep it together, and parents sometimes keep it as a prayer for the children they already have.

The story, as Krishna tells it to Yudhishthira, is about King Suketuman of Bhadravati and his queen Shaibya. They had a kingdom and every comfort but no child, and the king worried about who would carry on the family and remember the ancestors. Sad at heart, he rode alone into the forest and came to a lake where a group of sages had gathered. When he told them his story, they spoke of Putrada Ekadashi, which fell that very day. He kept the fast with them and returned home, and the story says a son was born to the royal couple in time.

In some years this is also the Ekadashi that South Indian temples observe as Vaikuntha Ekadashi, when the northern gate of Vishnu temples is opened before dawn. Whether that falls here or a month earlier depends on how the solar month lines up that year, and the temple calendar settles it.

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, and Vishnu puja with tulsi, often in the form of Bal Gopal, the child Krishna. The night is spent in bhajan. The fast is broken the next morning on Dwadashi, after Hari Vasara, within the parana time shown above.

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