Twenty-four hours then make a Day, 30 days a Month and 12 months a Up, step-by-step, to Milliseconds, Seconds, Minutes and Hours. From this remarkably small scale, the time-periods build The smallest unit found in Indian astronomy is in the Microsecond range Starting at the lower end of the time-scale, Time: small, medium, big, huge and immense. Minute, the mid-sized, the big and the enormous all coexist in harmony.Ĭlose to the panoramic unity and completeness that is found in Indian Cosmology. But, the cosmology of Indian astronomy has been skillfully woven intoĮveryday mundane astronomy, to produce a neatly unified system in which the It is a unified and complete cosmologicalĬosmological hypothesis by itself and nothing else, it would not be such a bigĭeal. Which vary in size from the small, to the large, to the enormous, to theĪnd complexity, quiet remarkably, an outstanding feature of Indian astronomy is Plethora of variables results in a large number of time-cycles in Indian astronomy, Their Apogees, their Nodes and the earth’s precession. Sun, the Moon, the five visible planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), Though quite intricate, involves only the Sun and the Moon.Īstronomy take into account every heavenly body, including the The largest possible cycle, in which every cyclical variation in the universeĬhristian era, for example, their scholars sought out cyclical periods inĮaster computations, in which the largest cycle turned out to be 57 million Greater and greater cycles of time, with the ultimate objective of determining

Maturing science of a society is to tread further on this path, and seek out (moon) and the Year (seasons) are everyday examples of such cyclical periods To seek out periods of time when things return to their original positions.

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