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In the bright half of the lunar month, the moon will be exactly 3/4 full on the start of Ekadashi, and in the dark half of the lunar month, the moon will be 3/4 dark on the start of Ekadashi. [9] There are usually 24 Ekadashis in a calendar year. Occasionally, there are two extra Ekadashis that happen in a Hindu leap year. [10]
Shravana Putrada Ekadashi, also known as Pavitropana Ekadashi and Pavitra Ekadashi, is a Hindu holy day, which falls on the 11th lunar day of the fortnight of the waxing moon in the Hindu month of Shravana which in the Gregorian calendar falls in July or August. [4]
Prabodhini Ekadashi (Sanskrit: प्रबोधिनी एकादशी, romanized: Prabodhinī Ekādaśī), also known as Deva Uttana Ekadashi (Sanskrit: देव उत्तान एकादशी, romanized: Deva Uttāna Ekādaśī), is the 11th lunar day in the bright fortnight (Shukla Paksha) of the Hindu month of Kartika.
Chaturmasya begins on the eleventh day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha or Devashayani Ekadashi. This is celebrated as the day that the deity Vishnu enters a yogic sleep ( yoga nidra ) [ 7 ] on his serpent, Shesha , for a period of four months and wakes up on Prabodhini Ekadashi .
Month name Period 1. Vishnu Caitra March–April 2. Madhusudana Vaisakha April–May 3. Trivikrama Jyestha May–June 4. Vamana Asadha June–July 5. Sridhara Sravana July–August 6. Hrsikesa Bhadrapada August–September 7. Padmanabha Asvina September–October 8. Damodara Kartika October–November 9. Kesava Margasirsa November–December 10 ...
In lunar religious calendars, Śrāvaṇa begins on the new moon (according to the amanta tradition) or the full moon (according to the purnimanta tradition) and is the fifth month of the year. Srabon (Bengali: শ্রাবণ; also spelt Sravan) is the fourth month of the solar Bengali calendar. It is also the fourth month of the Nepali ...
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Varuthini Ekadashi, also known Baruthani Ekadashi, is a Hindu holy day, which falls on the 11th lunar day of the fortnight of the waning moon in the Hindu month of Chaitra (per the South Indian Amavasyant calendar, every month ends with a new moon) or Vaishakha (per the North Indian Purnimant calendar, every month ends with a full moon).