Hora

Hora (होरा), the planetary hour in Jyotish. The day from sunrise to sunrise is divided into twenty-four horas, and each belongs to a graha. The first hora after sunrise belongs to the graha that owns the day (the vara lord), and the rest cycle in the order Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon — slowest apparent motion to fastest. Taking every twenty-fourth hora is what produces the order of the weekdays. A hora is a FLAT SIXTY MINUTES from sunrise; this is the mainstream Jyotish reckoning and the one we compute, and it feeds Hora Bala, one of the temporal strengths inside Shadbala. Note that the Western planetary hour, which shares this Chaldean sequence, divides the DAYLIGHT into twelve unequal parts instead, so the two traditions genuinely disagree about which planet owns a given moment. That difference is real, not an error — each tradition is reckoned by its own rule.