7. The God Sun, having thus spoken to, and ordered the man born from himself (to teach MAYA), disappeared. That man spoke to MAYA, who stood bending and folding his hands close to his forehead, in the following manner,
8. (O MAYA hear attentively the excellent knowledge (of the science of Astronomy) which the Sun himself formerly taught to the great saints in each of the Yugas.
9. I teach you the same ancient science, which the Sun himself formerly taught. (But) the difference (between the present and the ancient works) is caused only by time, on account of the revolution of the Yugas.
Kinds of time.
10. Time is of two kinds : the first (is continuous and endless which) destroys all animate and inanimate things (which is also the cause of creation and preservation), the second is that which can be known. This (latter kind of time) is also of two kinds; the one is called MŪRTA (measurable) and the other is AMŪRTA (immeasurable, by reason of bulkiness and smallness respectively).
Pala and Ghaṭikā
11. The time called MŪRTA, begins with PRĀṆA (a portion of time which contains four seconds,) and the time called Amūrta begins with TRUṬI (a very small portion of time which is the 1/33750th part of a second.) The time which contains six PRĀṆAS is called a PALA, and that which contains sixty PALAS is called a GHAṬIKĀ.
Day and Month.
12. The time, which contains sixty GHAṬIKĀS is called a Nākshatra Ahorātra (a sidereal day and night) and a Nākshatra Māsa (a sidereal month) consists of thirty NĀKSHATRA AHORĀTRAS, Thirty SĀVANA (terrestrial) days (a terrestrial day being reckoned from sun-rise to sun-rise) make a SĀVANA month.
The lunar and solar month as the Divine Day.
13. Thirty lunar days make a lunar days make a lunar month, and solar month is the time which the Sun requires to move from
