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Thursday, 26 March 2048

What matters on this day

Chaitra Shukla Paksha until 1:53 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:21 AM

Sunset6:32 PM

Nakshatra until 1:10 AM, Mar 27

Avoid 1:58 PM – 3:29 PM

Auspicious 12:02 PM – 12:51 PM

Padmini EkadashiEkadashi The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:58 PM – 3:29 PM

6:21 AM – 7:52 AM

9:24 AM – 10:55 AM

12:51 PM – 2:28 PM, 4:54 PM – 6:32 PM

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Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise2:54 PM

Moonset3:44 AM

Sukarma until 9:56 AM

Vishti

Guruvara

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