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Thursday, 6 January 2000

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 11:43 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:34 PM

Nakshatra until 9:22 AM, Jan 07

Avoid 1:43 PM – 3:00 PM

Auspicious 12:06 PM – 12:47 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

1:43 PM – 3:00 PM

7:19 AM – 8:35 AM

9:52 AM – 11:09 AM

12:47 PM – 2:09 PM, 4:12 PM – 5:34 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

Moonrise6:47 AM

Moonset5:21 PM

Dhruva until 4:44 PM

Chatushpada

Guruvara

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