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Sunday, 12 January 1975

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 3:49 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:39 PM

Nakshatra until 1:02 PM

Avoid 4:21 PM – 5:39 PM

Auspicious 12:08 PM – 12:49 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:21 PM – 5:39 PM

12:29 PM – 1:46 PM

3:04 PM – 4:21 PM

1:31 PM – 2:53 PM, 4:16 PM – 5:39 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

Moonrise7:03 AM

Moonset5:43 PM

Vyaghata until 10:41 AM

Naga

Ravivara

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