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Origin of Time& Calendar 
 
By
Tamarapu Sampath Kumaran
 
 About the Author:
Mr T Sampath Kumaran is a freelance writer. He regularly contributesarticles on Management, Business, Ancient Temples, and TempleArchitecture to many leading Dailies and Magazines.His articles are popular in “The Young World section” of THE HINDUHis e-books on nature, environment and different cultures of people aroundthe world are educative and of special interest to the young.He was associated in the renovation and production of two Documentaryfilms on Nava Tirupathi Temples, and Tirukkurungudi Temple inTamilnadu.Acknowledgement:I wish to express my gratitude to the authors from whose works I gatheredthe details for this book, and Courtesy, Google for some of the photographs.Tamarapu Sampath Kumaran
 
Time & Calendar Celestial bodies, the sun, moon, planets, and stars have provided us areference for measuring the passage of time throughout our existence.Ancient civilizations relied upon the apparent motion of these bodiesthrough the sky to determine seasons, months, and years.Earth spins on its axis. As it spins around we get daylight and darkness. This pattern of daylight and darkness repeats itself each time the earth completesa full turn on its axis. Since different parts of the earth face the sun atdifferent times, there are different day times on earth. One day is based onthis repeating pattern of the spin of the earth.The moon orbits the earth. Its appearance in the sky, viewed from earthchanges from one day to the other. This pattern repeats itself each time themoon passes in its orbit between the sun and earth. One month is based onthis repeating pattern. The word
month
comes from moon and both are believed to come from the same Indo-European root word which means to
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