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Monday, 8 February 2016

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 8:08 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:09 AM

Sunset6:01 PM

Nakshatra until 5:03 PM

Avoid 8:30 AM – 9:52 AM

Auspicious 12:13 PM – 12:57 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 – 9:52 AM

11:13 AM – 12:35 PM

1:56 PM – 3:18 PM

11:30 AM – 12:57 PM, 3:07 PM – 4:34 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

Moonrise6:45 AM

Moonset5:55 PM

Vyatipata until 2:21 PM

Chatushpada

Somavara

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