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Sunday, 24 October 2021

What matters on this day

Ashwin Krishna Paksha until 5:43 AM, Oct 25

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:31 AM

Sunset5:38 PM

Nakshatra until 1:01 AM, Oct 25

Avoid 4:15 PM – 5:38 PM

Auspicious 11:42 AM – 12:27 PM

Sankashti ChaturthiSankashti The monthly Ganesha fast, broken after sighting the moon and offering arghya. The Chaturthi falling on a Tuesday is Angarki Sankashti and is kept more widely. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:15 PM – 5:38 PM

12:05 PM – 1:28 PM

2:52 PM – 4:15 PM

1:11 PM – 2:40 PM, 4:09 PM – 5:38 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

Moonrise8:11 PM

Moonset9:33 AM

Variyan until 11:33 PM

Bava

Ravivara

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