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Thursday, 21 December 2006
What matters on this day
Pausha Shukla Paksha until 6:47 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:13 AM
Sunset5:24 PM
Nakshatra
until 11:14 AM
Avoid
1:35 PM – 2:51 PM
Auspicious
11:58 AM – 12:39 PM
No festival or vrat falls today for your region.
That is a real answer, not a gap — most days of the year are ordinary days,
and a calendar that always has something to sell you is not a calendar.
Coming up
- Chandra Darshan tomorrow Fri, 22 Dec
- Shukla Shashti in 5 days Tue, 26 Dec
- Masik Durgashtami in 7 days Thu, 28 Dec
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:35 PM – 2:51 PM
7:13 AM – 8:30 AM
9:46 AM – 11:02 AM
12:39 PM – 2:00 PM, 4:03 PM – 5:24 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
Moonrise7:40 AM
Moonset6:16 PM
Vriddhi until 12:35 AM, Dec 22
Bava
Guruvara
Your observances
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