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Thursday, 14 August 2014

What matters on this day

Shravana Krishna Paksha until 9:58 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:53 AM

Sunset6:57 PM

Nakshatra until 12:19 PM

Avoid 2:03 PM – 3:41 PM

Auspicious 11:59 AM – 12:51 PM

Sankashti ChaturthiSankashti The monthly Ganesha fast, broken after sighting the moon and offering arghya. The Chaturthi falling on a Tuesday is Angarki Sankashti and is kept more widely. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

2:03 PM – 3:41 PM

5:53 AM – 7:31 AM

9:09 AM – 10:47 AM

12:51 PM – 2:36 PM, 5:13 PM – 6:57 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

Moonrise9:34 PM

Moonset9:32 AM

Dhriti until 4:29 PM

Balava

Guruvara

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