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CHOGHADIA MUHURATCHOGADHIA:• Disha shool in vastu shastra forbids travel in certain directions on certain days.• **Eastward travel on a Saturday is ill-omened. **And if you are headed Northwards, don’tgo on a Tuesday.• India’s Marwaris and Gujaratis have great faith in astrology and vastu shastra and they benefitfrom it. They always choose an astrologically propitious time to take business decisions, whetherit’s to start a factory or make an investment. So much so that they are great respecters ofChogadhia, a Hindu belief, which divides a day into 7 equal parts: three are good, two are so-so,and three are bad. The good parts are shubh, laabh, and amrit, which means auspicious, profit,and elixir. The so-so ones are chanchal or chara, which means erratic. The three bad timeperiodsare rog (illness), udveg (tension), and kaal (disaster).• Traditionally chogadia is used only for travel muhurthas but due to simplicity it is used widely forany muhurtha• People may consider disha shool hocus-pocus, but Marwari businessmen have travelled for manycenturies according to disha shool. When GD Birla first went to Calcutta to make his fortune, hisfamily got a learned sadhu to decide on a right day for his eastward journey.16
CHOGHADIA & MUHURATCHOGADHIA:• The word ghadi means "time". During the Ancient times in India, day and night were measured inghadi instead of hours or minutes.• From this ghadi, the time showing device evolved into what is known as a watch, a portablemechanical timepiece.• In the Indian language, a watch is also called ghadi or ghadiyal.• The ghadi is equal to exactly 22.5 minutes (approx. 24 min), while the word cho means "four."• There are many like words beginning with "cho" (four), such as chokhunn (four corners), chogath(four knotted), chogatho (fourfold), chogannu (four times), chogam (four directions), chogdarm (allsides), chogan (all around), etc.• Similarly, "chogadiyu’n" means "four ghadis." The beating of four drums at every fourth ghadi alsomeans choghadia.• It clearly suggests that the term chogadiyu’n or chogadia embodies a dual significance: onone hand, it means four ghadis; on the other hand, it means four drums.• Under this computation, the term "choghadiyu’n" represents duration of 90 minutes.• Water Clocks were regulated to measure the time and ghadiyal or gong to announce the hour tothe people in principal towns.• Generally, a day is also divided into 8 parts, each part contains 1 hour and 30 minutes. The firstpart starting with the sunrise on that day, and last part ending on sunset on that day approximatelyfor the day times.17
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