🪷 1981 Ekādaśī Calendar · 25 Ekādaśīs, the Smārta and Vaiṣṇava Days

Every 11th tithi of every pakṣa · the most sacred fast-day of the lunar cycle · 25 occurrences in 1981

यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत्।
यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्॥
"Whatever you do · whatever you eat · whatever you offer · whatever you give · whatever austerities you perform · O Kaunteya · do it as an offering to Me." — Bhagavad-Gītā 9.27 — Ekādaśī observance turns daily eating into supreme yajña

Ekādaśī is the eleventh tithi (lunar day) of each pakṣa (fortnight). Two Ekādaśīs per month · 24 across the lunar year (occasionally 26 when there's an extra month). Vaiṣṇavas traditionally fast on these days · offering even food-restraint to Viṣṇu. Each Ekādaśī carries its own name and merit per the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa and Padma-Purāṇa.

The day of each Ekādaśī follows the Dharmasindhu's Ekādaśī-nirṇaya, computed on the Sūrya Siddhānta's sunrise and tithi at Ujjayinī: whether daśamī touches the sunrise (for Smārtas) or the aruṇodaya, the four ghaṭīs before it (for Vaiṣṇavas), and whether the ekādaśī and the dvādaśī run past the next sunrise. Smārta householders follow Mādhava, the present practice the text records. Who is Vaiṣṇava or Smārta is "by one's own tradition". Pāraṇā: within dvādaśī after its first quarter (hari-vāsara); in the first three muhūrtas when dvādaśī runs past madhyāhna; on trayodaśī when no dvādaśī remains. Times are IST at Ujjayinī.

SmārtaVaiṣṇavaNamePāraṇā (Smārta)
1981-01-02 Fri · KṛṣṇasameSaphalā Ekādaśī1981-01-03 07:09–09:40
1981-01-16 Fri · ŚuklasamePauṣa Putradā Ekādaśī1981-01-17 07:07–09:16
1981-01-31 Sat · KṛṣṇasameṢaṭ-tilā Ekādaśī1981-02-01 09:03–09:14
1981-02-14 Sat · Śukla1981-02-15Jayā Ekādaśī1981-02-15 12:14–15:55
Vaiṣṇava: 1981-02-16 06:55 (trayodaśī)
1981-03-02 Mon · KṛṣṇasameVijayā Ekādaśī1981-03-03 06:47–09:06
1981-03-16 Mon · ŚuklasameĀmalakī Ekādaśī1981-03-17 06:38–09:01
1981-04-01 Wed · KṛṣṇasamePāpamocanī Ekādaśī1981-04-02 06:28–07:36
1981-04-15 Wed · ŚuklasameKāmadā Ekādaśī1981-04-16 06:18–08:04
1981-04-30 Thu · KṛṣṇasameVarūthinī Ekādaśī1981-05-01 06:08–08:43
1981-05-14 Thu · ŚuklasameMohinī Ekādaśī1981-05-15 05:59–08:37
1981-05-29 Fri · Kṛṣṇa1981-05-30Aparā Ekādaśī1981-05-30 08:55–16:31
Vaiṣṇava: 1981-05-31 05:51 (trayodaśī)
1981-06-13 Sat · ŚuklasameNirjalā Ekādaśī1981-06-14 05:46–08:27
1981-06-28 Sun · KṛṣṇasameYoginī Ekādaśī1981-06-29 05:44–07:59
1981-07-12 Sun · ŚuklasameDevśayanī Ekādaśī1981-07-13 09:54–16:25
1981-07-27 Mon · KṛṣṇasameKāmikā Ekādaśī1981-07-28 05:47–08:25
1981-08-11 Tue · ŚuklasamePavitropanā Ekādaśī (Putradā)1981-08-12 05:53–08:28
1981-08-25 Tue · KṛṣṇasameAjā Ekādaśī1981-08-26 06:14–08:31
1981-09-10 Thu · ŚuklasamePārśva (Parivartinī) Ekādaśī1981-09-11 06:09–09:48
1981-09-24 Thu · KṛṣṇasameIndirā Ekādaśī1981-09-25 06:18–08:51
1981-10-09 Fri · ŚuklasamePāśāṅkuśā Ekādaśī1981-10-10 06:28–08:48
1981-10-23 Fri · KṛṣṇasameRamā Ekādaśī1981-10-24 06:38–08:54
1981-11-08 Sun · ŚuklasameDevotthāna Ekādaśī (Prabodhinī)1981-11-09 06:49–10:38
1981-11-22 Sun · KṛṣṇasameUtpannā Ekādaśī1981-11-23 06:57–09:07
1981-12-07 Mon · ŚuklasameGītā Jayantī (= Mokṣadā Ekādaśī)1981-12-08 07:04–09:12
1981-12-21 Mon · Kṛṣṇa1981-12-22Saphalā Ekādaśī1981-12-22 12:59–15:35
Vaiṣṇava: 1981-12-23 07:09–08:21

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1981 Ekādaśī calendarlocal Vaiṣṇava fast-day year view derived from the tithi stream1981 yearparent annual Hindu calendar source pathwayJanuary monthopening monthly pañchāṅga grid for the yearmid-year monthrepresentative monthly pañchāṅga grid for this companionyear opening dayatomic day-axis source page for the year boundary/festivals124-festival dharmic-year source layer behind annual observancesSaṅkrānti calendar12 solar rāśi-transition year view derived from the Sun streamPūrṇimā calendarfull-moon year view derived from the lunar tithi streamAmāvasya calendarnew-moon year view and pitṛ-tarpaṇa timing layerEclipse calendarsolar and lunar grahaṇa year scan from the Rāhu-Ketu nodal axisMercury retrograde calendarBudha-vakrī windows derived from the graha motion stream/jyotisha-referencefive-limb pañchāṅga and jyotiṣa reference layerŚukla Ekādaśī tithitithi reference page for the eleventh lunar dayBG 9.27yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi · offering every observance to Krishna/bhakti-yogabhakti practice context behind Vaiṣṇava fastingKrishna avatārathe recipient and source of Vaiṣṇava observance/samskara-muhurtarite-timing doorway that consumes the same date stream/calculatorreader-local chart computation for any date in the year/citiesreader-local Bhūmi access for city-specific time applicationBG 18.66surrender seal for every calendar observance/binduone Bindu behind year, companion, day, festival, and reader/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

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