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Sunday, 20 May 2012

What matters on this day

Vaishakha Krishna Paksha until 5:17 AM, May 21

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:31 AM

Sunset7:03 PM

Nakshatra until 9:40 AM

Avoid 5:22 PM – 7:03 PM

Auspicious 11:50 AM – 12:44 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

5:22 PM – 7:03 PM

12:17 PM – 1:59 PM

3:40 PM – 5:22 PM

1:39 PM – 3:27 PM, 5:15 PM – 7:03 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

Moonrise4:53 AM

Moonset6:41 PM

Shobhana until 6:06 PM

Chatushpada

Ravivara

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