Muhurtas to Weeks (muhurta to wk)
1 muhurta equals 0.004761904762 weeks (rounded).
How to convert muhurtas to weeks
To convert muhurtas to weeks, multiply the number of muhurtas by 0.004761904762. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply weeks by 210.
weeks = muhurtas × 0.004761904762
Example: 10 muhurtas = 0.04761904762 weeks.
Months and years are not constant. This site uses the average Gregorian year of 365.2425 days, so one 'year' converts to 365.2425 days, not 365; use 'common year' for exactly 365 days.
About these units
Muhurta (muhurta)
48 minutes (two ghati), one thirtieth of a day. A muhurta is an auspicious window used to pick the time of ceremonies.
Muhurta comes from Sanskrit and is explained as muhu, a moment, joined to rta, cosmic order, so the word points to the daily echo of the natural order. The Rigveda uses it only to mean a moment. Later Brahmana texts fixed it at one thirtieth of a day, or 48 minutes, and the Mahabharata states that thirty muhurtas make up a day and night.
The sources do not fully agree. One passage of the Shatapatha Brahmana gives a fifteenth of a day instead of a thirtieth, and Wikipedia says Svetambar Jain samayik vows use one or two muhurtas that it equates with forty minutes. The figure used here is the 48-minute muhurta, equal to two ghatis, and the Manusmriti builds it up from smaller steps of kala and kashtha.
In practice a muhurta is a window chosen by an astrologer as favourable for a wedding, a house entry or a new business. Wikipedia's table assumes a 6:00 sunrise and gives each of the thirty slots a quality, with the Brahma muhurta falling from 4:24 to 5:12 and regarded as good for yoga and meditation.
1 muhurta = 2,880 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Muhurta; Wikipedia: Hindu units of time
Week (wk)
Seven days. The seven-day week comes from the ancient Near East and is nearly universal in the modern calendar.
Nothing in the sky produces a seven-day cycle, which makes the week a human invention with a contested pedigree. Babylonians marked the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of the lunar month as special, but that was not a continuous cycle. A continuous seven-day cycle tied to the Sabbath is attested in Judaism by the 6th century BC at the latest, and scholars disagree on whether it was borrowed from Babylon or developed independently. The Romans later used a week named for the Sun, the Moon and the five visible planets, and in AD 321 Emperor Constantine decreed it across the empire.
A week is seven days, or 604,800 seconds, and it divides evenly into neither months nor years, which is why calendars shift against it. The ISO 8601 standard starts each week on Monday and assigns week 1 to the week containing the year's first Thursday, so some years have a week 53. Other societies used different lengths: Rome had an eight-day market cycle, and revolutionary France used a ten-day week from 1793 to 1802. The English word comes from Old English wice, meaning a turn or succession.
1 week = 604,800 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Week; Wikipedia: ISO week date
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