History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.761.2

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Gurney (in Pelican Books, 1958), pp 104-105 and 124 for technical Sanskrit words in horse breeding Vedic gods and royal names in Sanskrit in the 14th century B C It is possible to argue that seeing the temples of planetary gods in which worship was performed on certain days some Indians got the suggestion of a planetary week, as it has been suggested above that the ideas of the Zodiacal signs were derived from Babylonian boundary stones and similar monuments There were Sun temples in ancient India¹⁰⁷⁶ such as that of Mārtaṇḍa in Kashmir, that of Moḍhera in North Gujarat and that of Koṇārka in Orissa. Even now in some towns and villages there are temples of Saturn and Rāhu (as at Rāhuri in the Ahmednagar District of the Bombay State, which bears that name after Rāhu). Kauṭilya mentions the several divisions of time from '*truṭa*' to *yuga* and states that two *nāḍikās* are equal to a *muhūrta* and an *ahorātra* (day and night) has 30 muhūrtas (vide note 681 above). From this it follows that Kauṭilya knew only the division of the day into 60 nāḍīs and that a nāḍī was the same as ghaṭī. The Āryabhaṭīya gives the following table: 60 *vināḍīs* are equal to a *nāḍī*, 60 nāḍīs are equal to a day (Kālakriyāpāda, verse 1) Another way of citing the measures of time is: Time taken for repeating ten long letters is *prāṇa*, 6 prāṇas are equal to pala, 60 palas are equal to a daṇḍa, ghaṭī or nāḍī (Sūryasiddhānta I. 11, Jyotist-attva p. 562).