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Monday, 12 May 2025
What matters on this day
Vaishakha Shukla Paksha until 10:25 PM
New Delhi ¡ purnimanta reckoning ¡ change
Sunrise5:36 AM
Sunset6:59 PM
Nakshatra
until 6:17 AM
Avoid
7:16 AM â 8:57 AM
Auspicious
11:50 AM â 12:44 PM
PurnimaPurnima
The monthly full moon. Kept with a fast in many households, and very commonly with the Satyanarayana vrata katha.
Why today, and how to observe it â
Chitra Pournami
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Inauspicious periods
7:16 AM â 8:57 AM
10:37 AM â 12:17 PM
1:58 PM â 3:38 PM
10:57 AM â 12:44 PM, 3:24 PM â 5:12 PM
These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival â an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More â
Moon, and the five limbs
Moonrise6:51 PM
Moonset5:10 AM
Variyan until 5:52 AM, May 13
Vishti
Somavara
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