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Monday, 16 January 1939

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 9:40 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:42 PM

Nakshatra until 2:41 PM

Avoid 8:37 AM – 9:55 AM

Auspicious 12:10 PM – 12:51 PM

Shattila EkadashiEkadashi The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

8:37 AM – 9:55 AM

11:12 AM – 12:30 PM

1:48 PM – 3:06 PM

11:28 AM – 12:51 PM, 2:56 PM – 4:19 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise3:39 AM

Moonset2:22 PM

Vriddhi until 4:42 AM, Jan 17

Balava

Somavara

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