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The gods awaken — wedding season opens.
When is it?
Friday
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The date follows the tithi in the panchang; when a tithi shortens or lengthens, some places keep the festival a day earlier or later.
Why it is celebrated
Dev Uthani Ekadashi is the eleventh tithi of the bright fortnight of Kartik, and the name says exactly what happens on it: dev uthani, “the gods rise”. Vishnu is held to sleep on the serpent Shesha in the ocean of milk from Devshayani Ekadashi in Ashadha, four lunar months earlier, and to wake on this day.
The story and belief
Chaturmas is the four-month stretch from Devshayani Ekadashi in Ashadha to Prabodhini Ekadashi in Kartik — Shravan, Bhadrapada, Ashwin and Kartik, roughly July to November. Through it, auspicious beginnings are suspended.
The story and belief · continued
It is not a festival; it is a season of restraint, and it is one of the oldest institutions in the tradition.
Main rituals
The vidhi below is the shape kept in most North Indian households.
Across India
Customs differ from home to home and region to region; these are the main forms, not a rule everywhere.
Often asked
What is Chaturmas and what is not allowed in it?
Chaturmas is the four lunar months from Devshayani Ekadashi in Ashadha to Dev Uthani Ekadashi in Kartik — roughly July to November. Weddings, engagements, griha pravesh, mundan, janeu, and in most families property and vehicle purchases and new business openings are set aside during it.
Often asked · answer continued
Worship is not paused at all; some of the biggest festivals of the year fall inside Chaturmas.
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