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Tuesday, 9 December 2008

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Shukla Paksha until 11:36 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:06 AM

Sunset5:20 PM

Nakshatra until 12:30 AM, Dec 10

Avoid 2:46 PM – 4:03 PM

Auspicious 11:53 AM – 12:33 PM

Mokshada 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

2:46 PM – 4:03 PM

9:40 AM – 10:56 AM

12:13 PM – 1:30 PM

9:09 AM – 10:31 AM, 3:58 PM – 5:20 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

Moonrise2:37 PM

Moonset3:00 AM

Variyan until 12:59 PM

Vishti

Mangalavara

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