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Monday, 17 March 2008

What matters on this day

Phalguna Shukla Paksha until 11:36 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:32 AM

Sunset6:27 PM

Nakshatra until 1:37 AM, Mar 18

Avoid 8:01 AM – 9:31 AM

Auspicious 12:05 PM – 12:53 PM

Amalaki 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

8:01 AM – 9:31 AM

11:00 AM – 12:29 PM

1:59 PM – 3:28 PM

11:18 AM – 12:53 PM, 3:16 PM – 4:51 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

Moonrise2:23 PM

Moonset3:30 AM

Atiganda until 1:06 AM, Mar 18

Vanija

Somavara

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