Friday, September 21, 2007

Measure of time

India has given the idea of the smallest and the largest measure of time.

Krati Krati = 34,000th of a second
1 Truti = 300th of a second
2 Truti = 1 Luv
2 Luv = 1 Kshana
30 Kshana = 1 Vipal
60 Vipal = 1 Pal
60 Pal = 1 Ghadi (24 minutes)
2.5 Gadhi = 1 Hora (1 hour)
24 Hora = 1 Divas (1 day)
7 Divas = 1 saptaah (1 week)
4 Saptaah = 1 Maas (1 month)
2 Maas = 1 Rutu (1 season)
6 Rutu = 1 Varsh (1 year)
100 Varsh = 1 Shataabda (1 century)
10 Shataabda = 1 sahasraabda
432 Sahasraabda = 1 Yug (Kaliyug)

2 Yug = 1 Dwaaparyug 3 Yug = 1 Tretaayug
4 Yug = 1 Krutayug
10 Yug = 1 Mahaayug (4,320,000 years)

1000 Mahaayug = 1 Kalpa
1 Kalpa = 4.32 billion years

4 comments:

Rakesh Singh - राकेश सिंह said...

Great. Bahut bahut Dhanyawad to the person Who put this information.

Rahul Mirakhur said...

this is amazing - all this time the only thing I thought Indians invented was ZERO.

Thanks a lot to the person who posted this.

Anonymous said...

Our Ancestors mastered and described existence of single thing that make-up and running the current world in the ancient books.Its our bad luck that we are learning it from Western countries.

Unknown said...

Based on the measure of time scale given I have put the values in an excel sheet as below. The value for 1 ghadi is not matching the value (24 minutes) given. Can you please help me in locating the mistake in my calculation?
second second
1 Krati Krati (1/34000) 2.94118E-05
1 Truti (1/300) 0.003333333
1 Luv 2 truti 0.006666667
1 Kshana 2 Luv 0.013333333
1 Vipal 30 kshana 0.4
1 Pal 60 vipal 24
1 Ghadi 60 pal 1440