Names of Fourteen Manu

1. Swayambhuv	2. Swarochish	3. Uttam	4. Taamas
5. Raivat	6. Chakshush	7. Vaivaswat	8. Saavarni
9. Dakshasaavarni	10. Bhrahmasaavarni	11. Dharmasaavarni	12. Rrudrasaavarni
13. Ruchi=Devasaavarni	14. Bhuti=Indrasaavarni

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Major portion of Siddhant is dominated by planetary mathematics. Three branches of this stream are

Siddhant	studies the planetary mathematics right from the beginning of "Kalpa"
Tantra	involves study of planetory mathematics from "Mahayug" onwards
Karan	involves study of planetory mathematics from a particular year onwards.
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Time measurement in Astrology

Astrology measures time in terms of years of any of the following system.

Brahmya (Supreme God's)	Divya (God's)	Pitrya (Died ancestor's)
Prajapati (A god)	Brihaspati (Jupiter)
And remaining four are earth based
Solar (Sun)	Savan (Sunrise)	Chandra (Moon)
Aarksha (nakshatra)

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The smallest unit used in Indian astrology is 'Lagna'. One second of our time equals to 33,750,000 Lagna. Or one Lagna is approximately 3 micro seconds. Following chart gives rest of the units in terms of Lagna. For this page the 'day' includes night.

1 Lagna

(8/270000000) Seconds

1 Truti

1000 Lagna

1 Tatpar

100 Truti

1 Nimish

30 Tatpar

1 Kashtha

18 Nimesh

1 Pran

10 Vipale

1 Pran

2.5 Kashtha

1 Pal/Vinadi

6 Pran

1 Vipal

60 PratiVipale

1 Kala

2 Pal

1 Pal

60 Vipale

1 Ghatika/Nadi

60 Pale (Plural for Pal)

1 Day (Solar)

60 Ghatika

1 Solar year

365 Days 15 Ghatika 22 Pale 13 Kashtha 8 Nimish 9 Tatpar 84 Truti 720 Lagna

1 Kaliyug

4,32,000 Solar Years

1 Dwaparyug

8,64,000 Solar Years

1 Tretayug

12,96,000 Solar Years

1 Krutyug

17,27,000 Solar Years

1 Yug/Mahayug

Sum of all four above.

1 Manu

71 Mahayug

1 kalpa

14 Manu + 15 Sandhikaal(a Sandhikaal equal to 17,27,000 Solar Years)

1 BrahmaDay

2 Kalpa

1 BrahmaVarsha

360 BrahmaDays

1 Mahakalpa

100 Brahma Years

Now first 50 years of Bhrahma are over. And first Kalpa of first BrahmaDay of fifty first year is on. Of this first Kalpa first Manu are past and the seventh Manu, named as Vaivaswat, is going on. Twenty seven Mahayug of this manu are over. Of the twenty eighth Mahayug current year is 5105th year of Kaliyug. This means 4,26,896 years are still to come for this Kaliyug. Now this Kaliyug Shake 5105 started on 2nd April 2003. For further details on time measurement conact Paresh