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Thursday, 29 December 2016

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 12:23 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:17 AM

Sunset5:29 PM

Nakshatra until 11:17 AM

Avoid 1:39 PM – 2:56 PM

Auspicious 12:02 PM – 12:43 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:39 PM – 2:56 PM

7:17 AM – 8:33 AM

9:50 AM – 11:06 AM

12:43 PM – 2:05 PM, 4:07 PM – 5:29 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

Moonrise7:06 AM

Moonset5:40 PM

Vriddhi until 10:21 AM

Naga

Guruvara

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