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Monday, 18 August 2031

What matters on this day

Shravana Krishna Paksha until 10:02 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:55 AM

Sunset6:54 PM

Nakshatra until 8:31 AM

Avoid 7:33 AM – 9:10 AM

Auspicious 11:58 AM – 12:50 PM

Mahalaya AmavasyaAmavasya The monthly new moon: the day for ancestral offerings — tarpana and where kept, shraddha. Mahalaya Amavasya in Ashvina is the year's principal one. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

7:33 AM – 9:10 AM

10:47 AM – 12:24 PM

2:02 PM – 3:39 PM

11:07 AM – 12:50 PM, 3:26 PM – 5:10 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

Moonrise5:46 AM

Moonset7:07 PM

Variyan until 7:13 AM

Naga

Somavara

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