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CHAPTER LXI.

ON THE DOMINANTS OF THE DIFFERENT MEASURES OF
TIME IN BOTH RELIGIOUS AND ASTRONOMICAL RELA¬
TIONS,   AND   ON   CONNECTED   SUBJECTS.

whichofthe DURATION, or  time  in  general, only  applies to  the
measures of Creator as being his age, and not determinable by a
dominants   beginning and  an end.    In fact,  it is his  eternity,
not.^ ic     ipi^gy frequently call it the soul, i.e. yurusha.    But as
regards common time, which is determinable by mo¬
tion, the single parts of it apply to beings beside the
Creator, and to   natural phenomena  beside  the soul.
Thus kalpa is always used in relation to Brahman, for
it is his day and night, and his life is determined by it.
Page 260.          Each   manvantara  has   a   special  dominant  called

Mctnu, who is described by special qualities, already
mentioned in a former chapter. On the other hand, I
have never heard anything of dominants of the ccttitr-
yugas or yugas.

Varahamihira says in the Great Book of Ncttivities :
/' Abda, i.e. the year, belongs to Saturn ; Ayana, half a
year, to the sun ; Ritu, the sixth part of a year, to Mer¬
cury ; the month, to Jupiter; Paksha, half a month, to
Venus ; Vdsarct, the day, to Mars ; MuhHrtct, to the
moon."

In the same book he defines the sixth parts of the
year in the following manner: "The first, beginning
with the winter solstice, belongs to Saturn ; the second,
to Venus ; the third, to Mars ; the fourth, to the Moon;
the fifth, to Mercury; the sixth, to Jupiter."