Third Amrit Snan: Nashik 11 September, Trimbakeshwar 12 September 2027

The third Amrit Snan at Trimbakeshwar falls on Bhadrapada Shukla Dwadashi, kept as Vamana Jayanti or Vamana Dwadashi, the birth of Vamana, the fifth avatar of Lord Vishnu. The 2015 Simhastha held its last Trimbakeshwar bath on the same tithi and called it the Vaman Dwadashi Snan.

The bath is at Kushavarta, in the heart of Trimbakeshwar. By local belief the Godavari rises on the Brahmagiri hills, disappears and comes up again in this kund, which gives it its special holiness. Maharashtra Tourism calls the kund the origin of the Godavari, where devotees bathe before praying at the Trimbakeshwar temple, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas. By the arrangement the Nashik district traces to the Peshwas, the Shaiva and Udasin akharas bathe here.

The third Amrit Snan at Nashik falls on Bhadrapada Shukla Ekadashi, kept as Parivartini or Parsva Ekadashi. By tradition Lord Vishnu, asleep through the four months of Chaturmas, turns from one side to the other on this day, which gives the Ekadashi its name, and the Vamana form of Vishnu is worshipped on it. In 2027 it falls between Ganesh Chaturthi on 4 September and Anant Chaturdashi on 14 September.

Only the Vaishnava akharas bathe at Ramkund on this day. Ramkund is believed to be where Lord Rama used to bathe, and by legend he performed the last rites for his father Dasharatha there. Its Asthivilaya Tirth, the bone-dissolving pool, receives the ashes that families bring for their dead.