Ekadashi of Ashadhi festival celebrations at Pandharpur | Vitthal Mandir

The Ekadashi of Ashadhi celebrations taking place at  varioue locations in india especially coming to the the universal lord Vishnu gets festival day to day. Many devotees particularly Vaishnavas follow their holy day of the month. At Pandharpur where is the famous vishnu temple called vitthal mandir and also various places in India which is  the eleventh day of the fourth month of the Hindu calendar which has a lot of religious significance among the Hindus. Pandharpur is a town in district Solapur in state of Maharashtra in Western India.

It is located 65 km west of Sholapur, on the banks of the river Bhima, which is also known as Chandrabhaga. Known as “Sourthern Kashi of India”.The worship of Vishnu – Vitthala at Pandharpur is derived mainly from the puranas. Also known by the other names, Pandurang, Vitthal or Pandhari, it is supposed to be The Supreme God of The Universe for all the Maharashtrians and an incarnation of Lord Shiva and Vishnu. The word Vitthala is derived from the word Vishnu in Kannada.

Panduranga is a sanskritized form of Pandarga, the old name of Pandharpur. Pundalik, a saint was closely associated with this shrine, and hence this shrine is also known as Pundarika pura. A fast is observed on Shayani Ekadashi.The fast demands abstainance from all grains, beans, cereals, certain vegetables like onions and certain spices and all kinds of meat and eggs.