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Monday, 25 August 2014

What matters on this day

Shravana Krishna Paksha until 7:42 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:59 AM

Sunset6:46 PM

Nakshatra until 5:59 AM, Aug 26

Avoid 7:35 AM – 9:11 AM

Auspicious 11:57 AM – 12:48 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

7:35 AM – 9:11 AM

10:47 AM – 12:23 PM

1:59 PM – 3:34 PM

11:06 AM – 12:48 PM, 3:22 PM – 5:04 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

Moonrise5:29 AM

Moonset6:45 PM

Parigha until 1:48 PM

Chatushpada

Somavara

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