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Monday, 8 October 2029

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 8:55 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:21 AM

Sunset5:55 PM

Nakshatra until 2:07 AM, Oct 09

Avoid 7:48 AM – 9:15 AM

Auspicious 11:45 AM – 12:31 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

7:48 AM – 9:15 AM

10:41 AM – 12:08 PM

1:35 PM – 3:01 PM

10:59 AM – 12:31 PM, 2:50 PM – 4:22 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

Moonrise6:37 AM

Moonset6:25 PM

Indra until 9:02 AM

Kimstughna

Somavara

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