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Friday, 24 August 2063

What matters on this day

Shravana Krishna Paksha until 6:48 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:59 AM

Sunset6:47 PM

Nakshatra until 6:01 PM

Avoid 10:47 AM – 12:23 PM

Auspicious 11:57 AM – 12:49 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

10:47 AM – 12:23 PM

3:35 PM – 5:11 PM

7:35 AM – 9:11 AM

11:06 AM – 12:49 PM, 3:22 PM – 5:05 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

Moonrise5:56 AM

Moonset7:09 PM

Parigha until 8:07 AM

Naga

Shukravara

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