Dev Uthani Ekadashi 2026
Friday, 20 November 2026

About Dev Uthani Ekadashi

Chaturmas ends, Tulsi Vivah is held, and the wedding season opens again.

Also called: Prabodhini, Devutthana, Dev Prabodhini Ekadashi.

What it is kept for

Vishnu’s waking at the end of Chaturmas; weddings and other sanskars begin again after it.

Dev Uthani Ekadashi vrat katha

In the Purana, Brahma tells Narada that this is the night Hari wakes, and that keeping the fast and staying awake through the night in his worship, with songs, lamps and the reading of his names, outweighs a thousand ashvamedha yajnas.

In North Indian homes the Lord is woken in the evening: his feet are drawn in the courtyard with geru and rice paste, sugarcane, singhara and the season’s new produce are kept under a basket or sieve, and the family sings “utho dev, baitho dev” as the basket is lifted.

Retold from the Ekadashi Mahatmya in the Uttara Khanda of the Padma Purana, where Shri Krishna tells Yudhishthira the story and the merit of each Ekadashi.

Vrat vidhi

Tulsi Vivah, the marriage of Tulsi to Shaligram, is held on this Ekadashi or on the Dwadashi that follows, as the family’s custom is.

Beyond that, it is kept as every Ekadashi is: one sattvik meal without rice on Dashami, the sankalp at dawn, Vishnu’s puja with tulsi picked the day before, the katha, and no grain until parana, with fruit, milk, sabudana, kuttu and singhara in its place. The Ekadashi page has every step and the full lists of what to eat and avoid.

When to break the fast

Hari Vasara, the first quarter of Dwadashi, runs until 21 Nov, 12:09 PM, past the morning, and a fast is not broken at midday, so parana waits until after madhyahna: 1:11 PM to 3:18 PM on Saturday, 21 November, in New Delhi.

In 2027: Hari Vasara, the first quarter of Dwadashi, is over by 10 Nov, 3:26 PM, before sunrise, so the fast is broken in pratahkal, the first fifth of the day: 6:41 AM to 8:49 AM on Thursday, 11 November 2027, in New Delhi.