Years to Muhurtas (yr to muhurta)
1 year equals 10,957.275 muhurtas exactly.
How to convert years to muhurtas
To convert years to muhurtas, multiply the number of years by 10,957.275. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply muhurtas by 0.0000912635669 (rounded).
muhurtas = years × 10,957.275
Example: 10 years = 109,572.75 muhurtas.
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
Year (yr)
The average Gregorian calendar year of 365.2425 days (31,556,952 seconds). A common year has 365 days and a leap year 366.
A year is the Earth's trip around the Sun, but there are several versions. The tropical year, which tracks the seasons, is about 365.2422 days. The sidereal year, measured against the stars, is about 365.2564 days, roughly 20 minutes longer, because the Earth's axis precesses. Calendars must squeeze these into whole days, which is the origin of leap years. English year descends from Old English gear, while Latin annus, the source of annual, comes from a different root.
The Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII's bull of 24 February 1582, fixed the problem of Julian drift that had moved the March equinox away from 21 March and upset the date of Easter. Ten days were skipped, so Thursday 4 October was followed by Friday 15 October. Its rule of skipping leap days in century years not divisible by 400 gives a mean year of 365.2425 days, the value this site uses for the year. Britain and its empire switched in 1752 and Russia in 1918. Scientists write the year as a, with the Julian year fixed at 31,557,600 seconds.
1 year = 31,556,952 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Year; Wikipedia: Gregorian calendar
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
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