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Thursday, 8 January 1998

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 1:49 AM, Jan 09

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:36 PM

Nakshatra until 8:40 AM

Avoid 1:44 PM – 3:02 PM

Auspicious 12:07 PM – 12:48 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:44 PM – 3:02 PM

7:19 AM – 8:36 AM

9:53 AM – 11:10 AM

12:48 PM – 2:10 PM, 4:14 PM – 5:36 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise1:52 PM

Moonset2:49 AM

Sadhya until 1:18 PM

Vanija

Guruvara

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