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Monday, 26 September 2022

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 3:08 AM, Sep 27

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:15 AM

Sunset6:09 PM

Nakshatra until 6:16 AM, Sep 27

Avoid 7:44 AM – 9:13 AM

Auspicious 11:48 AM – 12:36 PM

Sharada Navaratri Nine nights of worship of the Goddess, concluding in Vijayadashami. What is actually done varies more by region than almost any other festival: a fast and a pot in the north, a five-day public Durga Puja in Bengal, a doll display in the south, garba in Gujarat. Why today, and how to observe it →

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Inauspicious periods

7:44 AM – 9:13 AM

10:43 AM – 12:12 PM

1:41 PM – 3:10 PM

11:00 AM – 12:36 PM, 2:59 PM – 4:34 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise6:21 AM

Moonset6:30 PM

Shukla until 8:04 AM

Kimstughna

Somavara

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