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Thursday, 3 October 2024

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 2:58 AM, Oct 04

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:19 AM

Sunset6:00 PM

Nakshatra until 3:32 PM

Avoid 1:37 PM – 3:05 PM

Auspicious 11:46 AM – 12:33 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

1:37 PM – 3:05 PM

6:19 AM – 7:46 AM

9:14 AM – 10:42 AM

12:33 PM – 2:06 PM, 4:27 PM – 6:00 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

Moonrise6:31 AM

Moonset6:23 PM

Indra until 4:23 AM, Oct 04

Kimstughna

Guruvara

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