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Thursday, 22 March 2012

What matters on this day

Phalguna Krishna Paksha until 8:07 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:26 AM

Sunset6:29 PM

Nakshatra until 10:17 AM

Avoid 1:58 PM – 3:29 PM

Auspicious 12:04 PM – 12:52 PM

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 →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:58 PM – 3:29 PM

6:26 AM – 7:56 AM

9:27 AM – 10:57 AM

12:52 PM – 2:28 PM, 4:53 PM – 6:29 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

Moonrise6:08 AM

Moonset6:26 PM

Shukla until 2:09 AM, Mar 23

Chatushpada

Guruvara

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