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Tuesday, 19 September 2028

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 8:00 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:11 AM

Sunset6:17 PM

Nakshatra until 12:17 PM

Avoid 3:15 PM – 4:46 PM

Auspicious 11:50 AM – 12:38 PM

Sharada Navaratri Nine nights of worship of the Goddess, concluding in Vijayadashami. What is actually done varies more by region than almost any other festival: a fast and a pot in the north, a five-day public Durga Puja in Bengal, a doll display in the south, garba in Gujarat. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

3:15 PM – 4:46 PM

9:13 AM – 10:43 AM

12:14 PM – 1:45 PM

8:37 AM – 10:13 AM, 4:40 PM – 6:17 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

Moonrise6:29 AM

Moonset6:48 PM

Shukla until 11:13 PM

Kimstughna

Mangalavara

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