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Sunday, 8 August 2021

What matters on this day

Ashadha Krishna Paksha until 7:20 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:50 AM

Sunset7:02 PM

Nakshatra until 9:19 AM

Avoid 5:23 PM – 7:02 PM

Auspicious 12:00 PM – 12:53 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 →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

5:23 PM – 7:02 PM

12:26 PM – 2:05 PM

3:44 PM – 5:23 PM

1:45 PM – 3:31 PM, 5:17 PM – 7:02 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

Moonrise5:17 AM

Moonset7:02 PM

Vyatipata until 11:37 PM

Chatushpada

Ravivara

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