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Tuesday, 19 January 1988

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 10:55 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:44 PM

Nakshatra until 7:20 PM

Avoid 3:08 PM – 4:26 PM

Auspicious 12:10 PM – 12:52 PM

Bhaumvati 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

3:08 PM – 4:26 PM

9:55 AM – 11:13 AM

12:31 PM – 1:50 PM

9:23 AM – 10:47 AM, 4:21 PM – 5:44 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

Moonrise7:10 AM

Moonset6:04 PM

Vajra until 2:41 AM, Jan 20

Naga

Mangalavara

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