Parshuram Jayanti 2028: Date, Puja Muhurat & Significance

Parshuram Jayanti Muhurat: 11:00 AM to 1:38 PM (New Delhi).

These times are worked out from local sunrise and sunset, so they shift by city. Choose your city for your own times.

Shukla Tritiya runs 27 Apr, 01:48 → 28 Apr, 01:28.

Temples and homes hold a Parashurama puja at midday (the hour of his birth), with a havan, the reading of the Parashurama-charita, and the honouring of the parashu (axe). A fast may be kept until the noon worship. Since the day is also Akshaya Tritiya, its acts of dana, new beginnings and gold-buying run alongside.

Parashurama is the kuladevata of several Brahmin communities (Chitpavan, Bhumihar, Tyagi, Nambudiri, Daivadnya) and the patron of the Konkan coast — Kerala, coastal Karnataka and the Konkan are said to be land he reclaimed from the sea by hurling his axe. He is one of the seven Chiranjivis, the deathless, and is believed to still be in tapas at Mahendragiri.

Parashurama was the youngest son of the sage Jamadagni and Renuka. When the king Kartavirya Arjuna stole Jamadagni's wish-cow and later had the sage killed, Parashurama took up the axe Shiva had given him and destroyed the tyrant kshatriya kings twenty-one times over, filling five lakes at Kurukshetra with blood, then gave the conquered earth to the Brahmins and withdrew to penance. In the Ramayana and Mahabharata he appears as the fierce guru of Bhishma, Drona and Karna.

Source: Mahabharata and the Puranas — the Parashurama cycle; Keralolpatti — the coast reclaimed

The Parashurama cycle is in the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and the Puranas, and the Kerala-origin tradition in the Keralolpatti and Sahyadri Khanda; the Jayanti is a Brahmin-community and coastal observance, with major temples at Chiplun, Pajaka, Thiruvallam and Kherdi.

• Mahabharata and the Puranas — the Parashurama cycle; Keralolpatti — the coast reclaimed
• Wikipedia — Parashurama

1. Falling on Akshaya Tritiya, the day honours Parashurama, the sixth avatar of Vishnu, with puja at midday.
2. Brahmin community organisations hold shobha yatras with his image and axe.
3. Temples in the Konkan, including Chiplun, and Parshuram Kund in Arunachal Pradesh hold special worship.

• Konkan, Kerala, coastal Karnataka. Temple utsavas at Chiplun, Pajaka and Thiruvallam; kuladevata worship by Chitpavan, Nambudiri and Daivadnya communities.
• North India (Brahmin, Bhumihar, Tyagi). Havan and Parashurama puja at midday, often as a community and caste-association event.

• Sattu and kheer — Offered at the midday puja and shared.

Parshuram Jayanti is kept on the day when Tritiya of Vaishakha Shukla paksha prevails at Madhyahna (midday). That day is Thursday, 27 April 2028, and the Parshuram Jayanti muhurat is from 11:00 AM to 1:38 PM. Tritiya holds at midday only on this day.

at Madhyahna (midday)

Parshuram Jayanti is Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya — the third tithi of the bright fortnight, in April or May, the same tithi as Akshaya Tritiya. The puja is done in the madhyahna (midday) window, the hour tradition gives for his birth.

A lunar date: Tritiya of the bright half of Vaishakha drifts about 11 days earlier each solar year, then jumps back ~19 days when a leap (Adhika) month is inserted.