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Sunday, 8 December 2019

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Shukla Paksha until 8:29 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:05 AM

Sunset5:20 PM

Nakshatra until 3:30 AM, Dec 09

Avoid 4:03 PM – 5:20 PM

Auspicious 11:52 AM – 12:33 PM

Mokshada EkadashiEkadashi The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:03 PM – 5:20 PM

12:12 PM – 1:29 PM

2:46 PM – 4:03 PM

1:14 PM – 2:36 PM, 3:58 PM – 5:20 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise2:42 PM

Moonset3:09 AM

Variyan until 5:15 PM

Vishti

Ravivara

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