History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.856

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It may be stated that in ancient texts the entrance of the Sun alone in a rāśi is not regarded as holy time, but the entrance of all planets in a nakṣatra or rāśi was deemed to be a holy time.⁵⁴⁶ Hemādri (on Kāla p. 437) and the Kālanirṇaya (p. 345) quote three verses⁵⁴⁷ specifying the holy times (*puṇyakāla*) of the passage of the Sun and planets as follows: in the case of the Sun the puṇya-kāla is 16 ghaṭikās before and after the moment of the Saṅkrānti; for the moon it is one ghaṭī and thirteen palas on both sides, for Mars four ghaṭikās and one pala, for Mercury three ghaṭikās and 14 palas, for Jupiter⁵⁴⁸ four ghaṭikās and 37 palas, for Venus four ghaṭikās and one pala, for Saturn 82 ghaṭikās and 7 palas.