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Saturday, 12 January 2019

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 10:05 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:19 AM

Sunset5:39 PM

Nakshatra until 8:43 AM

Avoid 9:54 AM – 11:11 AM

Auspicious — Abhijit Muhurta not considered on Saturday

Shukla ShashtiShashti The monthly observance of Kartikeya. The Kartika Skanda Shashti is the annual six-day form, concluding in the Soorasamharam. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

9:54 AM – 11:11 AM

1:46 PM – 3:04 PM

7:19 AM – 8:36 AM

9:23 AM – 10:46 AM

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

Moonrise10:51 AM

Moonset11:15 PM

Parigha until 7:34 AM, Jan 13

Kaulava

Shanivara

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