An experiment on rabi pigeonpea was conducted during 1981-82 with six irrigation sche­dules and three genotypes. Irrigation at 0 6 IW/CPE with 5-6 irrigations recorded signifi­cantly higher grain yield (1158 kg/ha), than treatments receiving two irrigations either at critical stages (747 kg/ha> or at 0.3 IW/CPE (827 kg/ha). Increasing number of irrigations to 9-10 (50% ASM or 0 9 IW/CPE) produced non-significant increase in yield over 0.6 IW/CPE. Rainfed treatment recorded the lowest grain yield of 442 kg/ha. Genotypes did not differ significantly in their yielding ability. Total consumptive use of water varied proportionately with number of irrigations recording highest consumptive use when irrigations were given at 50% ASM (681.1 mm) and the lowest with rainfed (159.9mm). Among genotypes, C-ll recorded higher consumptive use of water (451 4 mm) than RG-21 (433.5 mm) or T-21 (411.7 mm).