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Kokila Vrat 2027

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Kokila Vrat
A rare fast tied to the leap year — north Indian women keep Kokila Vrat only when Ashadha repeats, stretching it across the whole intercalary span from Ashadha Purnima to Shravan Purnima. Southern and western India keep it every year. The day's emblem is a small clay cuckoo, worshipped after a river bath.
Kokila Vrat 2027 falls on 18th July 2027.
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Upcoming Dates For Kokila Vrat
18th Jul 2027
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About
The cuckoo stands in for Sati herself. After she burned in Daksha's fire, she is said to have spent a thousand celestial years as a kokila before regaining her form and merging back into Shiva — which is why a clay bird, not a deity image, sits at the centre of this puja. The vrat katha read aloud during the fast is not a Shiva-Sati story at all. It is a teaching scene: Sage Vashistha explains the rite to Devi Kirtimala, wife of Shatrughna (Rama's youngest brother), and her recitation is what women repeat today. North Indian practice ties the fast to the leap-Ashadha cycle and runs it for a full lunar month; in Gujarat and the south the same vrat is compressed into the single Ashadha Purnima.
PRARTHANA FOR KOKILA VRAT
Sarvamangala Mangalye Stotram
1. Sarvamangala Mangalye Stotram
Karpura Gauram
2. Karpura Gauram
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