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mentators. The solution of some of these difficulties is furnished by the corresponding passage of the Mahâbhârata. This passage occurs in an account of the creation, communicated by Vyasa-Krishna-Dvaipayana to his son Suka, which Bhishma narrates to Yudhishthira.
MAHABHARATA XII, 232.
MANU I. 11. Vyasa said: In the commencement exists the Brahman without beginning or end, unborn, luminous, free from decay, immutable, eternal, unfathomable by reasoning, not to be fully known.
12. Fifteen nimeshas (twinklings of the eye are) one kâshtha', but thirty käshthâs one should reckon as one kalâ; moreover, thirty kalas 64. Eighteen nimeshas and that which may amount (twinklings of the eye are to the tenth part of a kala one ka shih a'), thirty kâshthâs shall be one muhûrta;
one kala, thirty kalas one 13. Thirty muhůrtas shall / muharta, and as many (m make a day and a night—that hûrtas) one day and night. number has been fixed by the sages; a month is declared (to consist of) thirty nights and days, and a year of twelve months.
14. But those acquainted with calculations call two progresses of the sun, the southern and the northern one, a year
15. The sun divides the days 65. The sun divides days and and nights of the world of nights, both human and dimen', the night(being intended) vine, the night (being intended)
Regarding the difference between the two computations, see Wilson, Vishnu-purâna I, 47 (ed. Hall).
· The verse marked as 14 in the Bombay edition consists of a single line only.
The reading of the Mahabharata, manusbalaukike for månushadaivike, seems the better one.
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