Here am sharing some information about how ancient people find time using sunlight at day time. Tamilans lived based on nature. So they calculate time using sounds of birds in early morning and stars at night.Now we see how they calculate time using sunlight shade.
This technology taken from the temple which was constructed by pallava king in 10th century.
The way to find time:
Take a paper, draw a semicircle and note the center point. Draw the baseline and another line perpendicular to the base line and it divide the semicircle into two halves. In the flat line mark both sides with 6 o clock. Mark two symbols one with sun and another one with moon. Mark centre line 12 o clock.
Ie) Sun usually rises at 6 in our country. From morning 6 to evening 6, noon 12 o clock divide the day into two equal parts.
From 6 to 12 o clock we have to draw 5 lines equally, in the half of the semi circle and named it as 7,8,9,10 and 11. And the second half of the semi circle draw 5 lines and named it as 1,2,3,4 and 5. The numbers in the semicircle indicates 1 to 12 o clock. Join all the numbers from the centre point and make sure the distance between adjacent lines should be same. If accurate minutes need to be calculate draw 3 lines with same distance between an hour.
Put one hole in the centre point and place one straight stick there. Place the clock where the morning 6 o clock should point out where the sunrises.(shadow should fall in the morning 6 o clock)
If you place clock in this direction, when suntravels and if your stick is straight the shadow of line falls in the hour of clock.
Thank you!!!
This technology taken from the temple which was constructed by pallava king in 10th century.
The way to find time:
Take a paper, draw a semicircle and note the center point. Draw the baseline and another line perpendicular to the base line and it divide the semicircle into two halves. In the flat line mark both sides with 6 o clock. Mark two symbols one with sun and another one with moon. Mark centre line 12 o clock.
Ie) Sun usually rises at 6 in our country. From morning 6 to evening 6, noon 12 o clock divide the day into two equal parts.
From 6 to 12 o clock we have to draw 5 lines equally, in the half of the semi circle and named it as 7,8,9,10 and 11. And the second half of the semi circle draw 5 lines and named it as 1,2,3,4 and 5. The numbers in the semicircle indicates 1 to 12 o clock. Join all the numbers from the centre point and make sure the distance between adjacent lines should be same. If accurate minutes need to be calculate draw 3 lines with same distance between an hour.
Put one hole in the centre point and place one straight stick there. Place the clock where the morning 6 o clock should point out where the sunrises.(shadow should fall in the morning 6 o clock)
If you place clock in this direction, when suntravels and if your stick is straight the shadow of line falls in the hour of clock.
Thank you!!!