Pausha Putrada Ekadashi as it was kept in 2025.
Next date: 19 January 2027Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2025
Friday, 10 January 2025, in Ahmedabad
EkadashiGujarati · Hindu
Panchang on the day
10
Friday
Waxing Eleventh
until 10:20
Taurus
- બBa
- વVa
- ઉU
- Sunrise
- 07:21
- Sunset
- 18:13
- Moonrise
- 14:40
- Nakshatra
- Krittika
- until 13:45
- Yoga
- Shubha
- until 14:36
- Karana
- Vishti
- until 10:20
- Rahu Kalam 11:25 to 12:47
- Yamaganda 15:30 to 16:51
- Abhijit muhurat 12:25 to 13:09
Why this date
Posh Waxing Eleventh, taken at sunrise
Runs from 9 Jan 12:22 IST to 10 Jan 10:20 IST.
In short
Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is a Ekadashi vrat observed according to the Hindu calendar. Its date and customary practices can vary by region and local Panchang.
The story
Pausha Putrada Ekadashi is observed in Pausha Shukla Paksha, or Posh Sud in Gujarat. Its vrat-katha tells of King Suketuman of Bhadravati and Queen Shaibya. Despite ruling a flourishing kingdom, they grieve because they have no child and worry about their family's future and ancestral rites. Overwhelmed, the king leaves the palace and wanders into a forest. There he reaches a lake where sages are gathered and asks them for guidance.
The sages explain that it is Putrada Ekadashi and recommend Vishnu worship with a disciplined vow. Suketuman returns to observe the fast, completes the prescribed Dwadashi observance and continues praying with the queen. The sacred account says they are blessed with a son. Its promises of children belong to religious belief and must not be presented as medical evidence that fasting treats infertility; families without children deserve equal dignity.
Devotees pray for family welfare, worship Vishnu, read the katha and may fast according to health. Pausha Putrada is distinct from the other Putrada Ekadashi of Shravan Shukla. The local selection of Ekadashi and Dwadashi parana needs checking against Smarta and Vaishnava practices.
Why it matters
Kept for a child, and by parents for a child's wellbeing. One of two Putrada ekadashis in the year - this the winter one, in Paush.
What people do
Vishnu worship, katha, family-welfare prayers and optional fast with locally timed parana.
Fasting
Posh's bright fortnight - the winter counterpart of the Shravan one, and kept for the same thing.
Told differently elsewhere
Pausha Shukla Ekadashi; distinct from Shravan Shukla Putrada Ekadashi.
Questions people ask
- When is Pausha Putrada Ekadashi in 2025?
- On Friday, 10 January 2025 in India. Runs from 9 Jan 12:22 IST to 10 Jan 10:20 IST.
- Why does the date change every year?
- It is kept by the lunar calendar, so its day on the civil calendar moves from year to year.
- Is the date the same everywhere?
- Usually. Where sunrise falls at a different moment the day can differ by one, and the dates here are worked out for India.
Dates in the coming years
- 2027Tuesday, 19 JanuaryPosh Sud 11
- 2028Saturday, 8 JanuaryPosh Sud 11
- 2028Wednesday, 27 DecemberPosh Sud 11
- 2030Tuesday, 15 JanuaryPosh Sud 11
- 2031Saturday, 4 JanuaryPosh Sud 11
Last kept30 December 2025
