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Panchang, festival dates, muhurat and birth charts, computed from an open ephemeris for your own city rather than copied from a printed table. 26 calculators, each one showing how it got there.

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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Budhavara, Shukla Chaturthi

Nakshatra
Anuradha
Sunrise
05:55
Sunset
17:32
Rahu Kaal
11:43โ€“13:11
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