the floor of time
3 trasareṇus (motes of dust)
Truṭi
Below the truṭi there is no further division of time — only the atoms of matter: the trasareṇu, the aṇu and the paramāṇu.
the floor of time — nothing finer lies below
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today…
Truṭi
त्रुटिTruṭi
≈ 0.47 milliseconds
composed of
3 trasareṇus (motes of dust)
The smallest measure of time — the span in which light crosses three specks of dust seen in a sunbeam. Below it lie only the atoms of matter: the trasareṇu, the aṇu and the paramāṇu.
in human scale
About two thousand truṭis pass in a single second — and a thousand of these tiny instants still nest inside one blink of the eye.
— Bhāgavata 3.11.4