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Sunday, 29 December 2024

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 4:02 AM, Dec 30

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:17 AM

Sunset5:29 PM

Nakshatra until 11:22 PM

Avoid 4:12 PM – 5:29 PM

Auspicious 12:02 PM – 12:43 PM

Masik Shivaratri The monthly night of Shiva: a lighter form of the Maha Shivaratri observance, kept with a fast and worship in the nishita watch. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

4:12 PM – 5:29 PM

12:23 PM – 1:39 PM

2:56 PM – 4:12 PM

1:24 PM – 2:46 PM, 4:07 PM – 5:29 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

Moonrise5:35 AM

Moonset4:11 PM

Ganda until 9:41 PM

Vishti

Ravivara

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