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Thursday, 26 December 2019

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 10:43 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:15 AM

Sunset5:27 PM

Nakshatra until 4:50 PM

Avoid 1:37 PM – 2:54 PM

Auspicious 12:01 PM – 12:41 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

1:37 PM – 2:54 PM

7:15 AM – 8:32 AM

9:48 AM – 11:05 AM

12:41 PM – 2:03 PM, 4:05 PM – 5:27 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

Moonrise7:08 AM

Moonset5:42 PM

Vriddhi until 10:05 PM

Naga

Guruvara

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