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Saturday, 6 January 2001

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 1:58 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:34 PM

Nakshatra until 11:45 PM

Avoid 9:53 AM – 11:10 AM

Auspicious — Abhijit Muhurta not considered on Saturday

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

9:53 AM – 11:10 AM

1:44 PM – 3:01 PM

7:19 AM – 8:36 AM

9:22 AM – 10:44 AM

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

Moonrise2:15 PM

Moonset3:18 AM

Sadhya until 9:01 AM

Vishti

Shanivara

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