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Monday, 22 December 2014

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Shukla Paksha until 4:30 AM, Dec 23

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:14 AM

Sunset5:24 PM

Nakshatra until 7:14 PM

Avoid 8:30 AM – 9:46 AM

Auspicious 11:59 AM – 12:39 PM

Somvati 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

8:30 AM – 9:46 AM

11:03 AM – 12:19 PM

1:35 PM – 2:52 PM

11:18 AM – 12:39 PM, 2:42 PM – 4:03 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

Moonrise7:14 AM

Moonset5:51 PM

Ganda until 9:03 AM

Kimstughna

Somavara

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