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Sunday, 12 December 2004

What matters on this day

Kartik Shukla Paksha until 3:16 AM, Dec 13

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:08 AM

Sunset5:21 PM

Nakshatra until 12:36 PM

Avoid 4:04 PM – 5:21 PM

Auspicious 11:54 AM – 12:35 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:04 PM – 5:21 PM

12:14 PM – 1:31 PM

2:48 PM – 4:04 PM

1:16 PM – 2:37 PM, 3:59 PM – 5:21 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

Moonrise7:09 AM

Moonset5:48 PM

Shula until 5:31 PM

Kimstughna

Ravivara

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