one ahorātra opens into

30 muhūrtas (8 praharas)

Ahorātra (a Day)
1611162126अहोरात्रAhorātra24 hours

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Ahorātra (a Day) — the Wheel of Vedic Time · अहोरात्र

Ahorātra (a Day) in the Vedic reckoning of time (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam). It spans 24 hours. One day and night. Of its thirty muhūrtas the human reckoning of finer time begins — and from here the Bhāgavata measures downward to the atom.

Heard in the hymns