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Hindu units of time are described in Hindu texts ranging from microseconds to trillions of years, including cycles of cosmic time that repeat general events in Hindu cosmology. [1] [2] Time (kāla) is described as eternal. [3] Various fragments of time are described in the Vedas, Manusmriti, Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu Purana, Mahabharata, Surya ...
Number of kinds of material bodies for soul, jiva atma (or species of life) in material world [clarification needed] 8,400,000 [6] [7] [8] * Number of species living in the water: 900,000 * Number of kinds of sthāvara (non-moving living entities such as trees and plants) 2,000,000 [9] * Number of species of insects and reptiles: 1,100,000 [10]
Muhūrta (Sanskrit: मुहूर्त, romanized: muhūrtaṃ) [1] is a Hindu unit of time along with nimiṣa, kāṣṭhā, and kalā [2] in the Hindu calendar. In the Brāhmaṇas, muhūrta denotes a division of time: 1/30 of a day, or a period of 48 minutes. [3] An alternative meaning of "moment" is also common in the Brāhmanạs. [4]
According to the Mahabharata, 12 months of Brahma (=360 days) constitute his year, and 100 such years his life called a maha-kalpa (311.04 trillion years or 36,000 kalpa + 36,000 pralaya). Fifty years of Brahma are supposed to have elapsed, and we are now in the Shveta-Varaha Kalpa or the first day of his fifty-first year.
The time Amurta is a time that begins with an infinitesimal portion of time and Murta is a time that begins with 4-second time pulses called Prana as described in the table below. The further description of Amurta time is found in Puranas where as Surya Siddhanta sticks with measurable time.
According to Zaehner, the term dharma means "duty" in the Gita ' s context; in verse 2.7, it refers to the "right [and wrong]", and in 14.27 to the "eternal law of righteousness". [194] Few verses in the Bhagavad Gita deal with dharma, according to the Indologist Paul Hacker, but the theme of dharma is broadly important. [195]
A manvantara, in Hindu cosmology, is a cyclic period of time identifying the duration, reign, or age of a Manu, the progenitor of mankind.In each manvantara, seven Rishis, certain deities, an Indra, a Manu, and kings (sons of Manu) are created and perish. [1]
Book 10 contributes the largest number of the 1350 verses of Rigveda found in Atharvaveda, or about one fifth of the 5987 verses in the Atharvaveda text. [108] A bulk of 1875 ritual-focussed verses of Yajurveda , in its numerous versions, also borrow and build upon the foundation of verses in Rigveda .