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Karana

Half a tithi; eleven names, four of them fixed.

Each tithi is divided into two karanas, giving 60 in a lunar month. Seven repeat cyclically and four are fixed. The one that matters most in practice is Vishti — Bhadra — which is avoided for auspicious beginnings and is the reason Holika Dahan and Raksha Bandhan windows are often published as starting late.

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