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Tuesday, 18 August 1998

What matters on this day

Shravana Krishna Paksha until 7:46 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:55 AM

Sunset6:54 PM

Nakshatra until 8:06 PM

Avoid 3:39 PM – 5:16 PM

Auspicious 11:58 AM – 12:50 PM

Aja 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 →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

3:39 PM – 5:16 PM

9:10 AM – 10:47 AM

12:24 PM – 2:02 PM

8:31 AM – 10:15 AM, 5:10 PM – 6:54 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise1:58 AM

Moonset4:19 PM

Vajra until 5:23 PM

Balava

Mangalavara

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