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Friday, 20 January 1939

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 6:56 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:45 PM

Nakshatra until 1:50 AM, Jan 21

Avoid 11:13 AM – 12:32 PM

Auspicious 12:11 PM – 12:53 PM

AmavasyaAmavasya The monthly new moon: the day for ancestral offerings — tarpana and where kept, shraddha. Mahalaya Amavasya in Ashvina is the year's principal one. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

11:13 AM – 12:32 PM

3:08 PM – 4:27 PM

8:37 AM – 9:55 AM

11:29 AM – 12:53 PM, 2:58 PM – 4:22 PM

These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival — an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More →

Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise6:58 AM

Moonset5:43 PM

Vajra until 7:38 AM, Jan 21

Naga

Shukravara

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