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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 6:43 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:45 PM

Nakshatra until 12:59 AM, Jan 21

Avoid 3:09 PM – 4:27 PM

Auspicious 12:11 PM – 12:53 PM

Bhaumvati 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

3:09 PM – 4:27 PM

9:55 AM – 11:13 AM

12:32 PM – 1:50 PM

9:23 AM – 10:47 AM, 4:22 PM – 5:45 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

Moonrise6:52 AM

Moonset5:43 PM

Harshana until 10:28 AM

Chatushpada

Mangalavara

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