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Sunday, 16 December 2085

What matters on this day

Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 4:09 AM, Dec 17

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:11 AM

Sunset5:22 PM

Nakshatra until 3:05 AM, Dec 17

Avoid 4:06 PM – 5:22 PM

Auspicious 11:56 AM – 12:37 PM

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

4:06 PM – 5:22 PM

12:16 PM – 1:33 PM

2:49 PM – 4:06 PM

1:17 PM – 2:39 PM, 4:01 PM – 5:22 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

Moonrise6:18 AM

Moonset4:57 PM

Shula until 2:09 AM, Dec 17

Chatushpada

Ravivara

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