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Tuesday, 16 January 1962

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 7:52 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:42 PM

Nakshatra until 11:17 AM

Avoid 3:06 PM – 4:24 PM

Auspicious 12:10 PM – 12:51 PM

Pausha Putrada 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

3:06 PM – 4:24 PM

9:55 AM – 11:13 AM

12:30 PM – 1:48 PM

9:23 AM – 10:47 AM, 4:19 PM – 5:42 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise2:02 PM

Moonset3:14 AM

Shukla until 12:27 AM, Jan 17

Vanija

Mangalavara

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