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Thursday, 23 October 2014

What matters on this day

Ashwin Krishna Paksha until 3:26 AM, Oct 24

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:30 AM

Sunset5:40 PM

Nakshatra until 4:02 AM, Oct 24

Avoid 1:29 PM – 2:52 PM

Auspicious 11:43 AM – 12:27 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

1:29 PM – 2:52 PM

6:30 AM – 7:54 AM

9:17 AM – 10:41 AM

12:27 PM – 1:56 PM, 4:10 PM – 5:40 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

Moonrise5:42 AM

Moonset5:25 PM

Vishkumbha until 4:33 AM, Oct 24

Chatushpada

Guruvara

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