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Friday, 17 May 1996

What matters on this day

Vaishakha Krishna Paksha until 5:16 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:33 AM

Sunset7:02 PM

Nakshatra until 6:36 AM, May 18

Avoid 10:36 AM – 12:17 PM

Auspicious 11:50 AM – 12:44 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

10:36 AM – 12:17 PM

3:39 PM – 5:20 PM

7:14 AM – 8:55 AM

10:56 AM – 12:44 PM, 3:26 PM – 5:14 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

Moonrise5:13 AM

Moonset7:06 PM

Shobhana until 6:18 PM

Naga

Shukravara

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