EKADASI: the eleventh day of the Hindu lunar fortnight

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Ekadasi - is the eleventh day of the waxing or waning moon.

Suddha Ekadasi means that the whole eleventh day of the moon elapses during the period between one sunrise and the next.

Viddha Ekadasi means that the eleventh day of the moon begins on one solar day (sunrise to sunrise) and finishes on the next solar day, that is after sunrise on the next day. In case of viddha Ekadasi, the observances are made on the Dvadasi i.e. the twelfth day of the moon.

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Ekadasi is a Sanskrit word, which means 'the eleventh'. It refers to the eleventh day of a fortnight belonging to a lunar month. There are two fortnights in a lunar month—the bright and the dark. So, Ekadasi occurs twice in a month, in the bright fortnight and the dark fortnight. The special feature of Ekadasi, as most people know it, is a fast, abstinence from food. This is how it is usually understood. In fact, the fast is only a practical expression and a symbol of something else that we are expected to do, which ...

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