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Tuesday, 17 August 2004
What matters on this day
Shravana Shukla Paksha until 7:43 AM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise5:55 AM
Sunset6:54 PM
Nakshatra
until 9:06 AM
Avoid
3:39 PM – 5:17 PM
Auspicious
11:59 AM – 12:50 PM
Chandra Darshan
The evening on which the new moon's crescent is first seen after Amavasya, low in the west shortly after sunset. Seeing it is held to be auspicious, and in many households the day's fast is broken only after the sighting.
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Mangala Gauri Vrat
The Tuesdays of Shravana, kept by married women — in most families for the first five years of marriage — for the husband's long life and the household's wellbeing. The puja is done in a group where possible, and the katha is recited.
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Coming up
- Shukla Shashti in 5 days Sun, 22 Aug
- Masik Durgashtami in 6 days Mon, 23 Aug
- Sawan Somwar Vrat in 6 days Mon, 23 Aug
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
3:39 PM – 5:17 PM
9:10 AM – 10:47 AM
12:24 PM – 2:02 PM
8:31 AM – 10:15 AM, 5:10 PM – 6:54 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
Moonrise6:48 AM
Moonset7:47 PM
Parigha until 7:57 AM
Bava
Mangalavara
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