On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c8.s3.3
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c8.s3.3
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He calls the Kṣaṇa the shortest space of time and makes 120 of it equal to one Tatkṣaṇa. Then 60 Tatkṣaṇas make one Lava, 30 Lavas make one Muhurta, five of these make one "time" (時), and six 'times' make one Day-night. The six 'times' of this last are, we are told, distributed equally between the day and the night. But the non-Buddhist people of India, Yuan-chuang tells us, divided the day and night each into four "times".