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Friday, 27 January 2017

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 5:37 AM, Jan 28

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:15 AM

Sunset5:52 PM

Nakshatra until 9:49 PM

Avoid 11:14 AM – 12:34 PM

Auspicious 12:12 PM – 12:55 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

11:14 AM – 12:34 PM

3:13 PM – 4:32 PM

8:35 AM – 9:54 AM

11:30 AM – 12:55 PM, 3:02 PM – 4:27 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

Moonrise6:35 AM

Moonset5:24 PM

Vajra until 3:08 PM

Chatushpada

Shukravara

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