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Thursday, 2 January 2003

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 1:52 AM, Jan 03

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:31 PM

Nakshatra until 5:36 PM

Avoid 1:41 PM – 2:58 PM

Auspicious 12:04 PM – 12:45 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

1:41 PM – 2:58 PM

7:18 AM – 8:34 AM

9:51 AM – 11:08 AM

12:45 PM – 2:07 PM, 4:09 PM – 5:31 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

Moonrise6:34 AM

Moonset5:10 PM

Vriddhi until 10:29 AM

Chatushpada

Guruvara

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