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Hindu units of time are described in Hindu texts ranging from microseconds to trillions of years, including cycles of cosmic time that repeat general events in Hindu cosmology.[1][2] Time (kāla) is described as eternal.[3] Various fragments of time are described in the Vedas, Manusmriti, Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu Purana, Mahabharata, Surya Siddhanta etc.[4][5][6]
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- ^ Gupta 2010, p. 8.
- ^ "Time – Vyasa Mahabharata". Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ Gupta, Ravi; Valpey, Kenneth (26 March 2013). The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14999-0.
- ^ "Concept and Measurement of Time in the Vedas". Sanskriti. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2021.