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Sunday, 18 January 2004

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 2:38 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:44 PM

Nakshatra until 4:14 PM

Avoid 4:25 PM – 5:44 PM

Auspicious 12:10 PM – 12:52 PM

Shattila 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 →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:25 PM – 5:44 PM

12:31 PM – 1:49 PM

3:07 PM – 4:25 PM

1:33 PM – 2:57 PM, 4:20 PM – 5:44 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

Moonrise3:25 AM

Moonset2:12 PM

Vriddhi until 1:48 AM, Jan 19

Balava

Ravivara

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