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Sunday, 16 January 2011

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 9:01 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:42 PM

Nakshatra until 2:37 AM, Jan 17

Avoid 4:24 PM – 5:42 PM

Auspicious 12:10 PM – 12:51 PM

Pausha Putrada 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

4:24 PM – 5:42 PM

12:30 PM – 1:48 PM

3:06 PM – 4:24 PM

1:33 PM – 2:56 PM, 4:19 PM – 5:42 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

Moonrise2:24 PM

Moonset3:40 AM

Shukla until 5:03 PM

Vishti

Ravivara

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