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Friday, 23 December 2022

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 3:46 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:14 AM

Sunset5:25 PM

Nakshatra until 1:13 AM, Dec 24

Avoid 11:03 AM – 12:20 PM

Auspicious 11:59 AM – 12:40 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

11:03 AM – 12:20 PM

2:52 PM – 4:09 PM

8:31 AM – 9:47 AM

11:19 AM – 12:40 PM, 2:42 PM – 4:04 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

Moonrise6:51 AM

Moonset5:29 PM

Ganda until 1:40 PM

Naga

Shukravara

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