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Monday, 19 December 1988

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Shukla Paksha until 4:22 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:12 AM

Sunset5:23 PM

Nakshatra until 11:42 AM

Avoid 8:29 AM – 9:45 AM

Auspicious 11:57 AM – 12:38 PM

Mokshada 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

8:29 AM – 9:45 AM

11:01 AM – 12:18 PM

1:34 PM – 2:51 PM

11:17 AM – 12:38 PM, 2:40 PM – 4:02 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise2:21 PM

Moonset2:56 AM

Shiva until 2:49 AM, Dec 20

Vishti

Somavara

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