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Tuesday, 5 January 2038

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 7:11 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:34 PM

Nakshatra until 5:37 AM, Jan 06

Avoid 3:00 PM – 4:17 PM

Auspicious 12:06 PM – 12:47 PM

Bhaumvati 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 →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

3:00 PM – 4:17 PM

9:52 AM – 11:09 AM

12:26 PM – 1:43 PM

9:21 AM – 10:43 AM, 4:12 PM – 5:34 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

Moonrise6:53 AM

Moonset5:30 PM

Dhruva until 4:05 PM

Chatushpada

Mangalavara

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