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Thursday, 21 October 1999

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 11:06 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:29 AM

Sunset5:42 PM

Nakshatra until 7:05 PM

Avoid 1:29 PM – 2:54 PM

Auspicious 11:43 AM – 12:28 PM

Papankusha 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

1:29 PM – 2:54 PM

6:29 AM – 7:53 AM

9:17 AM – 10:41 AM

12:28 PM – 1:57 PM, 4:12 PM – 5:42 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise3:32 PM

Moonset2:29 AM

Vriddhi until 11:43 PM

Vishti

Guruvara

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