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Measure of time, Moments or Kastha's, &c - Verse 9

Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 1 · Verse 3.9

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Sanskrit Original

तावत्संख्यैर अहोरात्रं मुहूर्तैर मानुषं स्मृतम अहोरात्राणि तावन्ति मासः पक्षद्वयात्मकः ।।

tāvatsaṃkhyair ahorātraṃ muhūrtair mānuṣaṃ smṛtam ahorātrāṇi tāvanti māsaḥ pakṣadvayātmakaḥ ||

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By those counts, a day and night are remembered as human time. Days and nights amount to a month, which consists of two fortnights.