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Sunday, 16 October 2011

What matters on this day

Ashwin Krishna Paksha until 5:17 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:26 AM

Sunset5:47 PM

Nakshatra until 6:22 AM, Oct 17

Avoid 4:22 PM – 5:47 PM

Auspicious 11:43 AM – 12:29 PM

Sankashti ChaturthiSankashti The monthly Ganesha fast, broken after sighting the moon and offering arghya. The Chaturthi falling on a Tuesday is Angarki Sankashti and is kept more widely. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:22 PM – 5:47 PM

12:06 PM – 1:31 PM

2:56 PM – 4:22 PM

1:14 PM – 2:45 PM, 4:16 PM – 5:47 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

Moonrise8:34 PM

Moonset9:54 AM

Vyatipata until 7:28 PM

Balava

Ravivara

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