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Saturday, 8 May 2027

What matters on this day

Vaishakha Shukla Paksha until 11:43 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:39 AM

Sunset6:56 PM

Nakshatra until 9:53 PM

Avoid 8:58 AM – 10:38 AM

Auspicious — Abhijit Muhurta not considered on Saturday

Parashurama Jayanti Especially observed along the Konkan coast and in Maharashtra and Karnataka. The appearance day of Parashurama, the sixth avatara — the Brahmin who took up the axe. Kept in the Konkan and by Chitpavan and Bhargava communities, and at the Parashurama temples of the west coast. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

8:58 AM – 10:38 AM

1:57 PM – 3:37 PM

5:39 AM – 7:19 AM

8:18 AM – 10:05 AM

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

Moonrise6:55 AM

Moonset9:13 PM

Shobhana until 5:51 AM

Kaulava

Shanivara

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