Anant Chaturdashi 2027

About Anant Chaturdashi

Anant Chaturdashi falls on the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada, which in 2027 is Tuesday, 14 September 2027. Vaishnav households tie a fourteen-knot thread for Vishnu as Ananta, Maharashtra and Gujarat immerse their Ganpati murtis, and Digambar Jains close the ten days of Das Lakshan Parva.

Ananta means endless. The day takes its name from Vishnu in his limitless form, resting on Shesha, the serpent who has no end. The tithi is Chaturdashi of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada, ten tithis after Ganesh Chaturthi, which usually works out to ten or eleven calendar days later depending on whether a tithi is doubled or dropped that year.

Most people meet the day through Ganpati visarjan, because that is what fills the roads. But the older observance on this date is the Anant vrat, and a third community, Digambar Jains, closes a ten-day fast here.

How is the Anant vrat kept on Anant Chaturdashi?

The Anant vrat on Anant Chaturdashi is kept around a thread called the anant sutra or anant dora, which is worshipped and then tied on the arm. It is usually cotton or silk, dyed with turmeric, and tied with fourteen knots. Each knot stands for one of the fourteen lokas, the worlds that Ananta is said to hold.

1. Bathe and set the seatThe vrat is kept from morning. A low wooden plank is marked with fourteen lines of kumkum, and fourteen puris and fourteen sweet puas are placed on them in the eastern and northern versions of the rite.
2. Set the kalash and the Ocean of MilkA vessel of panchamrit, made of milk, curd, honey, ghee and sugar or jaggery, stands for the Kshira Sagara on which Vishnu reclines. A kalash and a darbha-grass serpent are added in the South Indian form of the puja.
3. Prepare the threadThe anant sutra, with its fourteen knots, is wound around a cucumber and swirled in the panchamrit before it is worshipped.
4. Read the kathaThe family hears the story of Kaundinya and Sushila. Sushila keeps the vrat and the household prospers; Kaundinya, doubting it, destroys the thread; everything is lost until he returns to the vow and keeps it for fourteen years.
5. Tie the threadMen tie it on the right arm above the elbow, women on the left. It is generally worn for fourteen days, though some families keep it until the next Anant Chaturdashi.

Telugu, Kannada and Tulu families call the same vrat Ananta Padmanabha Vratam, after Vishnu as Padmanabha, the one from whose navel the lotus rises. In Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Nepal the fourteen puris and the plank form is common. The Agni Purana links the worship of Vishnu's Ananta form on this day with release from accumulated wrongdoing.

The katha is almost always introduced as advice Krishna gives Yudhishthira during the Pandavas' forest years, telling him to keep the Anant vrat to recover what was lost. The detailed ritual instructions circulate under the name Bhavishyottara Purana. Worth knowing if someone asks you for a chapter and verse: the story reaches most families through the vrat katha booklet, not through a critical edition of the Mahabharata.

What happens on the last day of Ganeshotsav?

Anant Chaturdashi is the last day of Ganeshotsav: households do the closing puja, mandals take their murtis onto the road, and the day ends in visarjan.

1. Morning
   Uttarpuja

   The household does the closing puja, apologises for anything lacking in the ten days, feeds the murti a last plate and gently shifts it to signal the departure.

2. Afternoon
   The procession starts

   Mandals bring their murtis onto the road with dhol-tasha, lezim and, in Mumbai and Pune, a long slow crawl through packed streets that can run past midnight.

3. Evening
   Visarjan

   Murtis go into the sea, a lake, a river or an artificial tank. Household murtis are often immersed in a drum of water at home and the clay used for plants.

4. The chant
   Ganpati Bappa Morya

   Pudhchya varshi lavkar ya, come back early next year. It is shouted, not sung, and everyone joins in.

The immersion is where the environmental argument lives. The Central Pollution Control Board's 2020 guidelines recommend natural clay and natural colours and a ban on plaster of Paris idols. In June 2025 a CPCB expert committee told the Bombay High Court that those guidelines are advisory, that they cover immersion rather than manufacture, and that states may permit PoP idols provided they go into temporary artificial tanks and the material is cleared out afterwards. Maharashtra, which declared Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav a state festival in July 2025, sent idols up to six feet to artificial ponds that season, and Mumbai's civic body built hundreds of them.

In Gujarat the day is often called Ananta Chaudas or Ganesh Chaudas, and in many Gujarati and Rajasthani homes the thread and the visarjan happen on the same afternoon.

What the day means for Jains

Digambar Jains observe Das Lakshan Parva, ten days from Bhadrapada Shukla Panchami to Chaturdashi, each day given to one of the ten universal virtues: uttam kshama (forgiveness), mardav, arjav, shauch, satya, sanyam, tap, tyag, akinchanya and brahmacharya. Anant Chaturdashi is the tenth and closing day, and Jain tradition holds it as the day Vasupujya, the twelfth Tirthankara of this cycle, attained nirvana. The day after is Kshamavani, when Digambar Jains ask forgiveness of everyone they may have harmed.

Svetambar Jains keep an eight-day Paryushan that ends earlier, with Samvatsari on Bhadrapada Shukla Chaturthi, and say Micchami Dukkadam there. Digambars more often say Uttam Kshama. The wording differs; the act of asking pardon is the same.

So on this one date you may have a neighbour dancing behind a lorry, a family sitting quietly with a thread and a plate of puris, and a Jain colleague on the last day of a long fast. All three are observing Anant Chaturdashi.

What to write

One practical note on timing: send Ganpati farewell messages in the afternoon or evening, when the procession is actually moving. Send Anant vrat wishes in the morning, before the puja. Send a Jain friend's note late in the day or the next morning, when the fast has been broken.

How to wish someone on Anant Chaturdashi

Three different days share one date, so pick your message by the person. For a Ganpati household it is a farewell: warm, a little wistful, Morya at the end. For a family keeping the Anant vrat it is a quiet blessing, not a party greeting. For a Jain friend closing Das Lakshan, skip festive wording entirely and write about forgiveness; Kshamavani follows the next day.

Write a few lines in your own words, pick a design and share it as one link on WhatsApp, Instagram or anywhere else. They open an animated card made just for them, with no app and no sign-up.

Language tip: English, Hindi + recipient language.

When is Anant Chaturdashi in 2026 and 2027?

Anant Chaturdashi is set by the Hindu lunisolar calendar, so it falls on a different date each year. In 2027 it falls 11 days earlier than in 2026.

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