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    How many upvas, ekashana are necessary in varshi tap

    6 months ago 184

    In Varshi Tap (Varshitap) there is no single fixed, same-every-time number of upvās and ekāshan across all years and all traditions. It depends on:

    • Exact start date (tithi)
    • Full lunar‑year length (about 13 months + 13 days)
    • Tithis like Ātham, Chaudash, Samvatsari, etc., where beshan/ekāshan is not done, so that day also becomes upvās or chhatth
    • The maryādā (rules) of your particular guru / gacch / sangh

    General idea (Śvetāmbara practice, Tapāgacch etc.)

    • Varshitap is kept for about 400 days.
    • Rule is basically: alternate‑day upvās and eating day.
    • On eating days one may do ekāshan or beśan, as per niyam.

    If it was a perfect “one day upvās / one day ekāshan” without any special tithis, it would be roughly:

    • ~200 days upvās
    • ~200 days ekāshan / beśan

    But in real practice:

    • Many eating days fall on tithis where you cannot eat, so those also become upvās or chhatth.
    • Therefore most Varshitap tapasvīs end up doing more than 220 upvās in total, and the remaining days are ekāshan / beśan.

    So you can remember simply:

    • Upvās: a little more than half the days (usually 220+)
    • Ekāshan / beśan: the rest of the days (around 170–180, approximately)

    Exact counts differ by:

    • Year’s calendar
    • Whether you keep only ekāshan on eating days or sometimes beśan
    • Local maryādā (some add special extra fasts)

    What you should do

    For your Varshi Tap:

    • Take pachchakkhān from your own guru / sādhu / learned elder.
    • Use the Varshitap calendar they give for that year.
    • Follow their count of how many upvās, how many ekāshan/beshan.

    You can read a simple explanation of Varshitap here

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