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Sunday, 6 October 2002

What matters on this day

Bhadrapada Krishna Paksha until 4:47 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:20 AM

Sunset5:58 PM

Nakshatra until 11:21 PM

Avoid 4:30 PM – 5:58 PM

Auspicious 11:45 AM – 12:32 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

4:30 PM – 5:58 PM

12:09 PM – 1:36 PM

3:03 PM – 4:30 PM

1:18 PM – 2:51 PM, 4:25 PM – 5:58 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

Moonrise5:50 AM

Moonset6:00 PM

Brahma until 9:30 AM

Chatushpada

Ravivara

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