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Thursday, 5 November 2026
What matters on this day
Ashwin Krishna Paksha until 10:36 AM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise6:39 AM
Sunset5:29 PM
Nakshatra
until 3:56 AM, Nov 06
Avoid
1:25 PM – 2:46 PM
Auspicious
11:42 AM – 12:26 PM
Rama EkadashiEkadashi
The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha.
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Govatsa Dwadashi
The day cows and their calves are honoured, opening the Diwali week. Wheat and milk products are set aside — in many households nothing made from wheat or from cow's milk is eaten.
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The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:25 PM – 2:46 PM
6:39 AM – 8:01 AM
9:22 AM – 10:43 AM
12:26 PM – 1:52 PM, 4:02 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
Moonrise2:41 AM
Moonset3:15 PM
Vaidhriti until 5:09 AM, Nov 06
Balava
Guruvara
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