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Tuesday, 24 February 2009

What matters on this day

Magha Krishna Paksha until 7:05 AM, Feb 25

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:55 AM

Sunset6:13 PM

Nakshatra until 7:45 PM

Avoid 3:24 PM – 4:49 PM

Auspicious 12:11 PM – 12:57 PM

Bhaumvati 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

3:24 PM – 4:49 PM

9:44 AM – 11:09 AM

12:34 PM – 1:59 PM

9:11 AM – 10:41 AM, 4:43 PM – 6:13 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

Moonrise6:19 AM

Moonset5:44 PM

Parigha until 10:01 AM

Chatushpada

Mangalavara

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