Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2028: Date, Parana Time & Vrat Vidhi

Parana (breaking the fast) is on Sunday, 9 January 2028, from 7:15 AM to 9:20 AM (New Delhi).

Break with water and tulsi, then fruit, then a light non-grain meal; a full meal after.

It is the grain-free Ekadashi fast (the fasting and parana rules are on the Ekadashi page), with the sankalpa taken for a virtuous child and the merit dedicated to that prayer.

As Vaikuntha Ekadashi in the South it is the greatest Vishnu day of the year, when the Vaikuntha Dwaram (Paramapada Vasal) is opened at Srirangam, Tirupati and other temples for the devotees to pass through.

The Bhavishyottara Purana tells of King Suketuman of Bhadravati and Queen Shaivya, long childless and despairing. Wandering by a forest lake they came upon an ashram of sages who told them to keep the Pausha Shukla Ekadashi with a full Vishnu vrat; they did, and in time a son was born to them who grew to be a righteous king.

Source: Bhavishyottara Purana (the Suketuman narrative); Padma Purana

The Putrada Ekadashi mahatmya is given in the Bhavishyottara and Padma Puranas; there are two Putrada Ekadashis in the year, in Pausha and in Shravana. The Vaikuntha Ekadashi observance is fixed by the southern Vaishnava calendars within Dhanurmasa, and its temple form is described in the Sri Vaishnava agama and utsava manuals.

• Bhavishyottara Purana — the Putrada Ekadashi mahatmya
• Sri Vaishnava utsava tradition — the Vaikuntha Dwaram at Srirangam and Tirupati

1. The grain-free fast is kept from sunrise with a Vishnu puja and the Ekadashi katha, the sankalpa naming the prayer for a child; the parana is within the Dwadashi after the Hari Vasara.
2. At the Vaikuntha Ekadashi temples the deity is taken through the opened north gate at dawn and the devotees follow, passing through the 'gate of the highest abode'.

• North and West India. Putrada Ekadashi — the fast kept by couples wishing for a child, with a Vishnu vrat and the katha.
• Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Karnataka. Vaikuntha Ekadashi — the opening of the Paramapada Vasal at Srirangam, Tirumala and other temples, the largest Vishnu gathering of the year.

• Phalahar and the parana meal — The grain-free Ekadashi diet; broken within the Dwadashi with tulsi water, then fruit, then a light non-grain meal.

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is kept on the day when Ekadashi of Pausha Shukla paksha prevails at sunrise. That day is Saturday, 8 January 2028. Ekadashi holds at sunrise only on this day.

at sunrise

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is the Shukla Ekadashi of Pausha — the Moon 120°–132° ahead of the Sun (sidereal, Lahiri), within the southern Dhanurmasa, with the Sun in sidereal Dhanu or Makara. See the Ekadashi page for the day-rule and the Smarta / Vaishnava difference; the Gregorian date drifts about 11 days earlier each year.

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