Parashurama Jayanti 2027 Date
Parashurama Jayanti 2027 is on Saturday, 8 May 2027, on Tritiya tithi.
Dates are for India (IST). Tithi timings for your city are on the Parashurama Jayanti page.
About Parashurama Jayanti
Parashurama Jayanti falls on Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya — the eve, or often the very day, of Akshaya Tritiya. Unlike Rama or Krishna, he is honoured rather than enshrined as a temple deity, since tradition holds he is a Chiranjivi still living on Mahendra mountain.
Parashurama was born in the first prahara of night, so the vrat is tied to Pradosha Kala (dusk) rather than sunrise. The observant keep Mauna (silence) through the day, bathe again at evening, and offer arghya with the Jamadagnisuto mantra — petitioning not wealth but Brahmatva, spiritual elevation. The night closes with japa of the 'Shri Rama' nama. Along the Konkan and Malabar coasts the day carries extra weight. Legend says Parashurama hurled his axe into the sea from Gokarna and reclaimed land down to Kanyakumari — the strip Keralites still call Parashurama Kshetra. He is said to have set up 108 Shiva shrines across it and to have settled Brahmin communities, including the Chitpavans of the Konkan, to atone for his slaughter of the Kshatriyas.
