Parivartini Ekadashi 2027
Saturday, 11 September 2027

About Parivartini Ekadashi

Vamana, his fifth avatar, is worshipped. In Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh it is Jaljhulani Ekadashi, when the deity is taken out on water.

Also called: Parsva, Jaljhulani, Padma Ekadashi.

What it is kept for

Vamana’s worship; Vishnu turns in his sleep on this day, which gives it its name.

Parivartini Ekadashi vrat katha

Krishna tells Yudhishthira of King Bali, who had won all three worlds. Vishnu came to his yajna as Vamana, a small brahmin boy, and asked for as much land as he could cover in three steps. Bali, though warned by his guru Shukracharya, gave it.

Vamana grew until one step covered the earth and the second the heavens. For the third, Bali offered his own head. Vishnu sent him to rule Patala and promised to stay near him.

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

In the puja Vishnu’s image is turned gently onto its other side. Where it is kept as Jaljhulani, the image is carried in a palki to a pond or river and bathed there.

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, is over by 12 Sep, 2:16 AM, before sunrise, so the fast is broken in pratahkal, the first fifth of the day: 6:05 AM to 8:33 AM on Sunday, 12 September, in New Delhi.