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Friday, 17 August 2012

What matters on this day

Shravana Krishna Paksha until 9:24 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:55 AM

Sunset6:54 PM

Nakshatra until 7:26 PM

Avoid 10:47 AM – 12:24 PM

Auspicious 11:59 AM – 12:50 PM

Mahalaya 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

10:47 AM – 12:24 PM

3:39 PM – 5:17 PM

7:32 AM – 9:10 AM

11:07 AM – 12:50 PM, 3:26 PM – 5:10 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

Moonrise5:16 AM

Moonset6:50 PM

Variyan until 5:44 PM

Chatushpada

Shukravara

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