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Thursday, 13 November 2008

What matters on this day

Kartik Shukla Paksha until 11:47 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:46 AM

Sunset5:24 PM

Nakshatra until 10:50 AM

Avoid 1:25 PM – 2:44 PM

Auspicious 11:44 AM – 12:26 PM

Kartik PurnimaPurnima The full moon of Kartika: river bathing at dawn, lamps at dusk, and — on the same date — Guru Nanak's birth anniversary for Sikhs and the Karthigai Deepam lamp festival in Tamil Nadu. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:25 PM – 2:44 PM

6:46 AM – 8:06 AM

9:25 AM – 10:45 AM

12:26 PM – 1:51 PM, 3:59 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

Moonrise5:36 PM

Moonset6:31 AM

Variyan until 7:57 PM

Bava

Guruvara

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