[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v6.c81.856 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.856 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.856 - **Language:** English ### [v6.c81.856](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.856) 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. - [Previous: v6.c81.855](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.855) - [Next: v6.c81.857](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.857) - [Up: v6.c81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.856](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.856) · Pramāṇa