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Sunday, 23 December 2012

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Shukla Paksha until 5:19 AM, Dec 24

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:14 AM

Sunset5:25 PM

Nakshatra until 2:45 PM

Avoid 4:09 PM – 5:25 PM

Auspicious 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM

Mokshada EkadashiEkadashi The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:09 PM – 5:25 PM

12:20 PM – 1:36 PM

2:53 PM – 4:09 PM

1:21 PM – 2:42 PM, 4:04 PM – 5:25 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise1:59 PM

Moonset2:37 AM

Shiva until 12:51 AM, Dec 24

Vanija

Ravivara

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