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Tuesday, 19 December 2017

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 2:39 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:12 AM

Sunset5:23 PM

Nakshatra until 10:09 AM

Avoid 2:50 PM – 4:07 PM

Auspicious 11:57 AM – 12:38 PM

Chandra Darshan The evening on which the new moon's crescent is first seen after Amavasya, low in the west shortly after sunset. Seeing it is held to be auspicious, and in many households the day's fast is broken only after the sighting. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

2:50 PM – 4:07 PM

9:45 AM – 11:01 AM

12:18 PM – 1:34 PM

9:14 AM – 10:36 AM, 4:02 PM – 5:23 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

Moonrise7:51 AM

Moonset6:24 PM

Vriddhi until 4:49 AM, Dec 20

Bava

Mangalavara

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