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  2. List of numbers in Hindu scriptures - Wikipedia

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    3,000,000 [12] * Number of human species [clarification needed] 400,000 [13] [14] [15] Number of Manus who manifest in one kalpa (one day of Brahmā) fourteen Manus [16] Duration of one day of Brahmā: 1,000 chatur-yugas (4.32 billion years) Number of Manus who manifest during one month of Brahmā: 420 Manus [17] Number of Manus who manifest ...

  3. Kalpa (time) - Wikipedia

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    In Hinduism, a kalpa is equal to 4.32 billion years, a "day of Brahma" (12-hour day proper) or one thousand mahayugas, [4] measuring the duration of the world. Each kalpa is divided into 14 manvantara periods, each lasting 71 Yuga Cycles (306,720,000 years).

  4. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    His 12-hour day or kalpa (a.k.a. day of Brahma) is followed by a 12-hour night or pralaya (a.k.a. night of Brahma) of equal length, each lasting for 4.32 billion years. A kalpa lasts for 1,000 chatur-yugas and has 14 manvantaras and 15 manvantara-sandhyas occurring in it. At the start of Brahma's days, he is re-born and creates the planets and ...

  5. Yuga cycle - Wikipedia

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    There are 1,000 Yuga Cycles (4,320,000,000 years) in a kalpa, a period that is a day (12-hour day proper) of Brahma, who is the creator of the planets and first living entities. There are 14 manvantaras (4,294,080,000 years) in a kalpa with a remainder of 25,920,000 years assigned to 15 manvantara-sandhyas (junctures), each the length of a ...

  6. Zmanim - Wikipedia

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    The daytime period is divided into twelve equal "relative hours" (or "seasonal" or "variable" hours), which can be longer or shorter than 60 minutes, as the period of daylight is generally not exactly twelve hours long. Hours of the day are counted according to these relative hours for commandments: thus, the Shema prayer must be recited in ...

  7. Jewish astrology - Wikipedia

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    By collecting the total number of minutes in any given day (from daylight hours) and dividing the total number of minutes by 12, the quotient that one is left with is ...

  8. Planetary hours - Wikipedia

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    As each day is divided into 24 hours, the first hour of a day is ruled by the planet three places down in the Chaldean order from the planet ruling the first hour of the preceding day; [2] i.e. a day with its first hour ruled by the Sun ("Sunday") is followed by a day with its first hour ruled by the Moon ("Monday"), followed by Mars ("Tuesday ...

  9. Sufi psychology - Wikipedia

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    A visual rendition of the Islamic model of the soul based on a consensus of 18 surveyed academic and religious experts [5] There is now a substantial literature on combining these elements—ruh, qalb, nafs, and aql (mind)—to create an Islamic model for human behavior which can be the basis for an Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy.