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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Sanskrit term for time}}<br />
{{Other uses|Samaya (disambiguation)}}<br />
[[File:Ashoka Chakra.svg|thumb|The [[Ashoka Chakra]] has a spoke for each of 24 hours in a day.]]<br />
'''Samaya''' ({{Langx|sa|समय|lit=Time|translit=Samayā}})<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2014-08-03 |title=Samaya, Samayā, Samāya, Shamaya: 30 definitions |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/samaya |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}</ref> or '''Samayam''' ({{Langx|sa|समयम्|translit=Samayaṃ}})<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bodhi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftnADQAAQBAJ&dq=samaya%E1%B9%83&pg=PA1531 |title=The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries |date=2017-09-26 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-61429-454-2 |pages=1531 |language=en}}</ref> is a [[Sanskrit]] term referring to the "appointed or proper time, [the] right ''moment'' for doing anything."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Monier-Williams |first1=Sir Monier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUKaou4KcMC&dq=samayam+sanskrit+time&pg=PA1164 |title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymological and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages |last2=Leumann |first2=Ernst |last3=Cappeller |first3=Carl |date=1999 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |isbn=978-81-206-0369-1 |pages=1164 |language=en}}</ref> In [[Languages of India|Indian languages]], ''samayam'', or ''samay'' in [[Indo-Aryan languages]], is a unit of time.<br />
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In contemporary usage, ''samayam'' means time in [[Dravidian languages]] such as [[Kannada]], [[Malayalam]], and [[Tamil language|Tamil]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andronov |first=Mikhail Sergeevich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhB60gYvnLgC&dq=samayam+time&pg=PA258 |title=A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages |date=2003 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3-447-04455-4 |pages=258 |language=en}}</ref> and {{lang|sa|samay}} in [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] languages such as [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Hindi]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]].<br />
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==Uses==<br />
{{lang|sa|Samayam}} is a term used in [[Indian classical music]] to loosely categorize [[ragas]] into times of day. Each ''raga'' has a specific period of the day ([[prahar|praharam]]) when it is performed.<br />
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In the [[Gandharva Veda]], the day is divided into three-hour intervals: 4–7{{nbsp}}a.m., 7–10{{nbsp}}a.m., etc. The time concept in the Gandharva Veda is more strictly-adhered to than it would be, for example, in [[Carnatic music]].<br />
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The samayachakra is the great chariot wheel of time which turns relentlessly forward.<br />
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===Jainism===<br />
{{see also|Jain units of time}}<br />
Samaya represents the most infinitesimal part of time that cannot be divided further.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jain |first=Vijay K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCxZDwAAQBAJ&dq=samaya+unit+of+time&pg=PA180 |title=Ācārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra – Essence of the Doctrine आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित "प्रवचनसार" |date=2018 |publisher=Vikalp Printers |isbn=978-81-932726-1-9 |pages=180 |language=en}}</ref> The blink of an eye, or about a quarter of a second, has innumerable ''samaya'' in it. For all practical purposes a second happens to be the finest measurement of time. [[Jainism]], however, recognizes a very small measurement of time known as ''samaya'', which is an infinitely small part of a second.<br />
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A {{lang|sa|samaya}} is the amount of time it takes for the soul of an ''[[Arihant (Jainism)|arihant]]'' to travel to the [[Siddhashila]] (highest realm in the [[universe]]) after reaching the stage of [[Moksha (Jainism)|moksha]] (liberation).<br />
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===Hinduism===<br />
{{lang|sa|Samayam}} is stated to be an epithet of [[Shiva]] in the [[Agni Purana]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Books |first=Kausiki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3ZJEAAAQBAJ&dq=samaya+time+puranas&pg=PT460 |title=Agni Purana 1 : English Translation only |date=2021-07-12 |publisher=Kausiki Books |pages=460 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Hindu cosmology]]<br />
* [[Jain cosmology]]<br />
* [[Palya]]<br />
* [[Hasta (unit)|Hasta]]<br />
* [[Religious cosmology]]<br />
* [[Kairos]]<br />
* [[Instant]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Units of time]]<br />
[[Category:Hindu cosmology]]<br />
[[Category:Sanskrit words and phrases]]<br />
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