The story
While Vishnu slept, the demon Murdanav attacked him. A woman arose from Vishnu’s eleventh faculty, the mind, and defeated the demon; Vishnu named her Ekadashi and declared that fasting on that day, mastering all eleven senses, leads to liberation.1
Where to go next
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- Encyclopedia Ekadashi — Wikipedia · accessed 2026-11-08
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