一切經音義 35.169

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Muhūrta (謨呼律) (also Sanskrit; the name of a unit of time; the calendrical system of the Western Regions divides one day and night into thirty muhūrtas; regardless of winter or summer, it is fixed at thirty; at the spring and autumn equinoxes, day and night each receive fifteen muhūrtas; at the winter and summer solstices, the times of maximum length and shortness, day and night mutually encroach by six, namely twelve and eighteen; this is the current character form).