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Friday, 6 November 2026
What matters on this day
Ashwin Krishna Paksha until 10:31 AM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise6:40 AM
Sunset5:28 PM
Nakshatra
until 4:43 AM, Nov 07
Avoid
10:43 AM – 12:04 PM
Auspicious
11:43 AM – 12:26 PM
Dhanteras
The day the Diwali lamps begin. Households buy metal — traditionally silver or gold, in practice often a steel or brass vessel — and light the Yama deepam, a lamp set outside the door facing south.
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Pradosh VratPradosh
The twice-monthly Shiva observance, kept in the ninety minutes around sunset with abhisheka and the Pradosha stotra.
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The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
10:43 AM – 12:04 PM
2:46 PM – 4:07 PM
8:01 AM – 9:22 AM
10:59 AM – 12:26 PM, 2:35 PM – 4:02 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
Moonrise3:39 AM
Moonset3:48 PM
Vishkumbha until 4:10 AM, Nov 07
Taitila
Shukravara
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