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Mesopotamian water-clock in India (2)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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time
water-clock
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Achaemenid Empire 		Channel
Indian culture

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The use of an out-flowing water-clock in Mul Apin and in post-Vedic Indian texts is similar. There is a relationship between liquid measure and the temporal measure.

Arthaśāstra 2.20.35:
A nāḷikā [= 24 minutes] is measured by an āḍhaka of water flowing through a hole which is four digits long, (extending) from a pot [kumbha]. (It is composed of) four māṣakas of gold.

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Arthaśāstra 2.20.35

Bibliography

Pingree 1973, 3-4Pingree, David. “The Mesopotamian Origin of Early Indian Mathematical Astronomy.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 4 (1973) 1-12.

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Amar Annus


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