Re: The measure of day time in Hinduism
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Let me offer this for one's consideration . This is from a jyotiśhāstra¹ point of view.
When we look at time, sunrise and the like there are a few things that one considers.
The sun rules the day, the moon rules the night. There is this quality of yama who is also known as dharmarāja. Yama is self-control, forbearance , any great moral rule or duty, and always follows the sun. This yama has great strength to follow dharma and hence the sun.
Because of following this edict, yama's day begins with sunrise, as the sun owns the day. Hence the day always begins with sunrise. As we know it changes day-by-day, yet yama follows it without concern, break or pause.
Compare this now with mahakāla - time (as destroying all things) , death , time of death. This mahakāla does not follow the sun. This mahakāla picks an arbitrary point as a start time . Like in the West when the a new ~day~ starts at midnight! In this case there is equal day and equal night ( of 12 hours each); this is not the same when one follows the sun as the sun rises and sets at different times.
So, within sanātana dharma via jyotiśhāstra many yield to the sun, also considered the ātmakāraka for all beings. We follow the sun.
You will find more on ātmakāraka, sunrise, and the like in the HDF Jyotish folder.
iti śivaṁ
1. jyotiśhāstra - one of the 6 vedāṅga texts
Last edited by yajvan; 10 July 2013 at 02:26 PM.
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