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Saturday, 27 October 2001

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 4:59 AM, Oct 28

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:33 AM

Sunset5:36 PM

Nakshatra until 11:28 PM

Avoid 9:19 AM – 10:42 AM

Auspicious — Abhijit Muhurta not considered on Saturday

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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

9:19 AM – 10:42 AM

1:27 PM – 2:50 PM

6:33 AM – 7:56 AM

8:46 AM – 10:14 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

Moonrise3:00 PM

Moonset1:57 AM

Vriddhi until 4:20 PM

Vanija

Shanivara

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