Today, we are all familiar with the words clock, hour, minute, second, hour "Time goes on, river flows on," I have also heard and seen many times There is a saying in English, "Time and tide is waiting for none " Time and money, the Sahebs say, means time is money.

Time is wealth The time that is so talked about is measured but the clock Time is tied to the clock today, the way of many evolutions.

The Rig Veda mentions the word "Muhurta," which is 48 minutes The Rig Veda mentions two divisions of day and night In these, the day is divided into three parts - Pratah Saban, Madhyandin Saban, and Teesri Saban Sometimes the day is divided into five parts - Pratah or Udaya, Sangav, Madhyandin or Midday, Pitham and Sayang or Sayahna or Astagna.

Each of these parts counted three muhurta, two hours and twenty-four minutes Notable in this regard are the 6/9/10, 10/34/11, 3/53/8 mantras of the Rig Veda.

Then comes the Shatapatha Brahmana (13/3/2), where the ahora-nitra is divided into 30 minutes and the year into 30 x 360 = 10,800 minutes The Taittiriya Brahmana (3/10/1), where the fifteenth moment of the day is called "chitra," "ketu," etc , is not uniform throughout India However, the time scale is not uniform.

Some differences are noted between the Manusamhita and the Amarakosha For example, in the Manusamhita (1/46), 18 nimesh = one kashta, 30 kashta means 1 banana, 30 kala means 1 moment, and 30 muhurat means one hour or 24 hours On the other hand, the Amarakosha (3/11-12) has 18 nimesh, 30 kashta means 1 banana, 30 kala means 1 moment, 12 kala means 1 moment, 12 kala means 1 moment, 1 kala means 1 minute, 1 kala means 1 hour, and 60 kala means 1 hour or 24 hours.

The other names for this nadika are nadi, and the other names for the half-moments are ghoti, ghatika, and danda This division of time is imaginary and according to Indian astrology, the division of time should be with prana or breathlessness Hence, according to the "Surya Siddhanta," 6 breathless or prana (4 seconds) is 1 binaadi or 24 seconds, 1 nadi (24 minutes) in 60 binaadi and 1 ahoraat or 24 hours in 60 nadi.

The "Surya Siddhanta" text (13/20-22) mentions measuring time with shadow measuring instruments like cone, yashti, bow, chakra, etc Water instruments, kapal yantras, peacock idols, monkey idols, and sand instruments In between, a certain-sized copper vessel with holes at the bottom, is placed on the water and it is submerged 1 / 60 of the night and is called a "kapal yantra.

" " Kapal" and "Ghoti" are synonyms.

The Mughal historian Abul Fazl Allami, in his Ain-i-Akbari, notes that Hindu scholars divided the day and night into four parts and named each part Prahar And to measure the time, a tube 5 fingers long and one inch wide was inserted under a vessel made of copper or some other metal.

Then the vessel was dipped in water It took a clock It was struck on a bell made of bronze and the time was declared as one hour The person who rang the bell was called "Ghariala" or "Ghariali ".

It turns out, then, that the tiny container of water that measured one-sixtieth of the time of day, or 24 minutes, was called a "ghoti " Then the 24-minute period was called a " ghoti" or "clock " Then the bell that rang to announce one hour, or 24 minutes, was called a ".

clock " Then the clock became the " clock " The clock continues to measure our time every day.