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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

What matters on this day

Magha Krishna Paksha until 4:04 AM, Feb 22

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:58 AM

Sunset6:11 PM

Nakshatra until 12:19 AM, Feb 22

Avoid 3:23 PM – 4:47 PM

Auspicious 12:12 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

3:23 PM – 4:47 PM

9:46 AM – 11:10 AM

12:35 PM – 1:59 PM

9:13 AM – 10:42 AM, 4:41 PM – 6:11 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

Moonrise6:25 AM

Moonset5:47 PM

Parigha until 9:07 PM

Chatushpada

Mangalavara

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