Prabodhinī Ekādaśī, Utthāna-dvādaśī, Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Gaurī Pūrṇimā

॥ श्रीः ॥			November 11	November 12	November 13		November 14	November 15	November 16
+5:30	India	Udupi		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Kolkata			*			Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā, Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Manali			*		Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		New Delhi			*
		Bengaluru			*
		Gokarna			*
		Morjim			*
+5:00	Tajikistan	Dushanbe			*
	Russia	Perm			*
		Ufa			*
		Orenburg			*
		Yekaterinburg		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Surgut			*
		Chelyabinsk			*
+5:00	Kazakhstan	Aktobe			*
		Aktau			*
		Kokshetau			*
		Almaty			*
		Tekeli			*
		Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen)			*
+6:00	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek			*
	Russia	Omsk			*
+7:00		Krasnoyarsk		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Novokuznetsk			*
		Novosibirsk			*
		Barnaul			*
		Tomsk			*
	Thailand	Ko Pha-ngan			*			Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā, Gaurī Pūrṇimā
+8:00	Indonesia	Denpasar			*
+9:00	Russia	Mirny			*
+10:00		Khabarovsk			*
		Vladivostok			*
+12:00		Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky			*			Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
+4:00	Armenia	Yerevan		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
	Georgia	Tbilisi			*
	Russia	Samara			*
+3:00		Volgograd			*
+4:00		Ulyanovsk			*
+3:00		Pyatigorsk			*
		Stavropol			*
		Semikarakorsk			*
		Krasnodar			*
		Kerch			*
		Simferopol			*
	Russia	Donetsk			*
		Stary Oskol		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Lipetsk			*
+3:00		Voronezh			*
		Tambov			*
		Kazan			*
		Cheboksary			*
		Kirov			*
		Rostov-on-Don			*
	Russia	Ryazan			*
		Moscow			*
		Dubna			*
+3:00		Velikiy Novgorod	HV > 08:15 12.11		*
		Saint Petersburg		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Murmansk			10:14–10:31
		Kostomuksha			09:29–10:31
		Arkhangelsk			*
		Smolensk			*
	Belarus	Gomel			*
		Minsk	HV > 08:15 12.11		*
		Grodno			08:51–10:31
+2:00	Ukraine	Kharkov			*
		Poltava			*
		Kremenchug			*
		Krivoy Rog			*
		Kiev		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
		Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd)			*
		Nikolaev			*
		Odessa			*
		Rovno	HV > 07:15 12.11		*
+2:00		Kolomyia			*
	Israel	Ashkelon			*
	Moldova	Kishinev			*
	Cyprus	Nicosia			*
	Latvia	Riga	HV > 07:15 12.11		08:04–09:31
		Jurmala			08:05–09:31
	Estonia	Tallinn			08:15–09:31
	Lithuania	Vilnius		Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
+1:00	Poland	Warsaw	HV > 06:15 12.11		06:56–08:31
	Austria	Vienna			07:01–08:31
	Germany	Hitzacker			07:40–08:31
		Dillingen an der Donau			07:26–08:31
		Eppingen			07:34–08:31
	Switzerland	Biel/Biennne			07:35–08:31
	France	Marseille			07:32–08:31
	Spain	Barcelona			07:40–08:31
		Madrid			08:01–08:31
		Seuta			07:58–08:31
+0:00	UK	London	HV > 05:15 12.11		07:18–07:31
-4:00	Canada	Fredericton	HV > 01:15 12.11	Prabodhinī Ekādaśī	*	Utthāna-dvādaśī, Lakṣa-dīpotsava starts, Kṣirābdhi-mahotsava	Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśī, Dhātrī-pūjā	Gaurī Pūrṇimā
-5:00		Toronto	HV > 00:15 12.11		*
	USA	New York City			*
		Miami			*
	Mexico	Cancun			*
-6:00	Canada	Meadow Lake	HV > 23:15		*
-8:00	USA	Los Angeles	HV > 21:15		*
॥ ॐ तत्सत् ॥			November 11	November 12	November 13		November 14	November 15	November 16

* — Pāraṇam (completing the fast by taking water and food) is to be performed during standard period of time: after sunrise and before the first fifth of the daylight ends. Pāraṇam time could be calculated with “Vaiṣṇavaṁ Pañchāṅgam” software.

< — Pāraṇam must be done before the time specified (in 24-hour format)

> — Pāraṇam must be done after the time specified (in 24-hour format)

HV > — The last quater of Ekādaśī-tithi (Hari-vāsara) starts from the time specified (in 24-hour format). If the starting time is after the midnight, the following date is mentioned with the time. The last quater of Ekādaśī-tithi is considered to be Hari-vāsara and should be strictly observed with Ekādaśī vows even when the observation of Ekādaśī fast follows the next day.

Prabodhinī Ekādaśī

Prabodhinī Ekādaśī is also known as Deva-prabodhinī and Utthānaikādaśī (prabodhanam — “awakening”, utthānam — “getting up”). This day marks the end of Ćāturmāsya vows related to fasting. The vows dealing with adoration, chanting mantras etc, are in effect up to the full moon — Pūrṇimā (it is confirmed by the words of Vrata-kāṇḍa in Skanda-purāṇa: “उपवासस्वरूपाणि व्रतान्यत्यानि सन्ति वै । तानि सर्वानि विप्रेन्द्र प्रबोधिन्यां समापयेत् ॥ . . . इतराणि च सर्वानि पौर्णमास्यां समापयेत्”). Next morning “bipartite” and “multi-seeded” plants are offered to men of merit in sign of completion of the vow.

Utthāna-dvādaśī, Kṣīrābdhi-mahotsava

Dvidala-vrata-samarpaṇam (offering the vows of the last month of Ćāturmāsya):

अनिरुद्ध नमस्तुभ्यं द्विदळाख्यव्रतेन च ।
मत्कृतेनाश्विने मासि प्रीत्यर्त्थं फलदो भव ॥

aniruddha! namas tubhyaṁ dvidaḷākhya-vratena ća •
mat-kṛtenāśvine māsi prīty-artthaṁ phala-do bhava ••

“Aniruddha! Namah unto You! Bestow me the fruits of dvidala-vrata observed by me for Your pleasure in the month of Aśvina!”

Ćāturmāsya-samarpaṇam (offering the vows of the whole Ćāturmāsya):

इदं व्रतं मया देव कृतं प्रीत्यै तव प्रभो ।
न्यूनं सम्पूर्ण्णतां यातु त्वत्प्रसादात् जनार्द्दन ॥

idaṁ vrataṁ mayā deva kṛtaṁ prītyai tava prabho! •
nyūnaṁ sampūrṇṇatāṁ yātu tvat-prasādāt janārddana! ••

“Deva! I observed this vrata for Your satisfaction, Prabho! Gracefully, fill up my deficiencies to perfection, Janārdana!”

In the afternoon Kṣīrābdhi-mahotsava (a milk ablution of Viṣṇu-mūrti) is performed as participation in awakening Bhagavān amidst the Milk Ocean.

Final day of Tulasī-pūjā

Utthāna-dvādaśī — the final day of Tulasī-pūjā which has been performed during 12 days. In the evening a particularly glorious worship of Tulasī and Dāmodara (Who is invisibly present in Tulasī) is performed. Given the opportunity, Dāmodara is worshipped both in Tulasī and Sālagrāma.

Tulasī adoration

तुळसि श्रीसखि शुभे पापहारिणि पुण्यदे ।
नमस्ते नारदनुते नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥

tuḷasi śrī-sakhi śubhe pāpa-hāriṇi puṇya-de •
namas te nārada-nute nārāyaṇi namo’stu te ••

Tulasī-Dāmodara-pūjā mantra

श्रीतुळसीसहिताय दामोदराय नमः ।

śrī-tuḷasī-sahitāya dāmodarāya namaḥ •

Lakṣa-dīpotsava

In the evening of Utthāna-dvādaśī Lakṣa-dīpotsava (“Festival of one hundred thousand of lights”) starts and continues through Pūrṇimā. After nightfall lights are lit in clay, wooden, copper, or golden (in ascending order of preference) oil lamps, fuelled by ghṛta (clarified butter), oil, camphor, etc. The lights are offered to Viṣṇu with His retinue, and arranged as maṇḍalas, svastikas, and other auspicious signs in front of His Form and elsewhere in home, in the street, in the temple, near fruit trees, wells, in groves, on the tops of mountains, at summits and highest points, along roads, etc.

Vaikuṇṭha-ćaturdaśi, Dhātrī-pūjā

After the sunset — Dhātrī-pūjā, adoration of Mother-Tree — Amalakī, or Dhātrī — together with Viṣṇu and devas present in her. Vana-bhojanam — picnic, feast in the lap of nature, accompanied by singing songs (for example, Fourteen paeans or stotras by Śrīmad-Āćārya), dances and discourses about Bhagavān.

Gauri-pūrṇimā

It is the last day of Lakṣa-dīpotsava. Vana-bhojanam and Ćandrikā-bhojanam — feast under moonlight.

Kindly direct your inquiries upon fasts and vratas, as well as corrections, suggestions, infromation on time zone changes, and requests to include new places for calculation to ekaadashii@gmail.com.

Ekādaśī-vratas are calculated with “Vaiṣṇavaṁ Pañchāṅgam”, created by Āśutoṣa. You may support the development of this software through Github "Sponsor" button (look for the heart symbol).

Respectfully yours,
Nārasiṁha