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Tuesday, 23 December 2003

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 3:13 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:14 AM

Sunset5:25 PM

Nakshatra until 12:56 AM, Dec 24

Avoid 2:52 PM – 4:08 PM

Auspicious 11:59 AM – 12:40 PM

Bhaumvati 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

2:52 PM – 4:08 PM

9:47 AM – 11:03 AM

12:19 PM – 1:36 PM

9:16 AM – 10:38 AM, 4:03 PM – 5:25 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

Moonrise6:53 AM

Moonset5:31 PM

Ganda until 1:33 PM

Naga

Mangalavara

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