🪷 अजा एकादशी · Ajā Ekādaśī

📅 When is Ajā Ekādaśī?

YearDateDay
20252025-08-19Tuesday
2026 (this year)2026-09-07Monday
20272027-08-28Saturday
King Hariścandra observed this; restored him to throne and family.
Associated deity: Bhagavān Viṣṇu

Tradition

Tradition: Vaishnava

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

How the day is decided

The Smārta householders' day by the Ekādaśī-nirṇaya: daśamī at sunrise (Smārta) or in the aruṇodaya (Vaiṣṇava), and whether the ekādaśī and dvādaśī run past the next sunrise; Smārtas by Mādhava, the present practice. The Vaiṣṇava day and the pāraṇā are on the Ekādaśī calendar.

Source: Dharmasindhu, Ekādaśī-nirṇaya (OCR 1480-1700). Computed on the Sūrya Siddhānta's sunrise, tithi and Moon at Ujjayinī (a city's page uses that city's sunrise).

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 26,
  "tithi_paksha": "Kṛṣṇa",
  "lunar_month": "Śrāvaṇa",
  "lunar_month_system": "amanta"
}
Precedence: 4 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output

Sources and Connected Observances

Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.

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