World's First Vedic Clock To Be Inaugurated At Ujjain
By A Draft Correspondent
A unique Vedic clock, which will show time based on ancient Indian traditional panchang- has been set up and installed in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh and will be revealed on March 1.
The Vedic clock, which is situated on an 85-foot-high tower built at Jantar Mantar in the city, will be virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 1. It is close to Government Jiwaji Observatory in the district.
The clock will present information about Vedic Hindu Panchang, planetary positions, Muhurat, astrological calculation, predictions, etc. It will also indicate the Indian Standard Time (IST) and the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The clock will measure the time from one sunrise to another.
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The world’s first Vedic clock, which is placed on an 85-foot high tower here in Ujjain, will measure time from one sunrise to another. The time interval between the two sunrises will be split into 30 parts whose one hour consist of 48 minutes according to ISD. The reading will begin from 0:00 with the sunrise functions for 30 hours (an hour of 48 minutes). The clock will show 30 Muhurats, tithi, and all other time calculations of Vedic Hindu panchang.
The Director of Maharaja Vikramaditya Research Institute Shree Ram Tiwari, said, “It will be the world’s first clock in which Indian time calculation will be shown. The Vedic Clock is installed here as Ujjain has been regarded as the centre of time calculation. The Tropic of Cancer passes through Ujjain.”
Experts say that 300 years ago, the standard time of the world was derived from Ujjain only. A machine is present in Ujjain to find out the time. Mohan Yadav, the current State Chief Minister and the former Higher Education Minister, laid the foundation stone of the Vedic clock on November 6, 2022.
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