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Sunday, 15 October 2023

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 12:32 AM, Oct 16

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:25 AM

Sunset5:48 PM

Nakshatra until 6:12 PM

Avoid 4:22 PM – 5:48 PM

Auspicious 11:44 AM – 12:29 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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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:22 PM – 5:48 PM

12:06 PM – 1:32 PM

2:57 PM – 4:22 PM

1:15 PM – 2:46 PM, 4:17 PM – 5:48 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

Moonrise6:41 AM

Moonset6:14 PM

Vaidhriti until 10:23 AM

Kimstughna

Ravivara

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