DIMRAUT. HIND. One of the twelve pal or tribes of the Mewati.
DIN or Deen, with Millat and Mazhab, are three Arabic words used by Mahomedan wtiters for religion. Din means a.s it stands in relation to God, Diu-Allah, the religion of God ; Millat as it stands in relation to a prophet or lawgiver, as Millat-i-Ibrahim, the religion of Abraham ; and Mazhab as it stands in relation to the commentators of Islam, as Mazhab-i-Hanafi. Din is, however, of general application. Maliomedans sometimes call their own religion, Din-i-Islatn, the Faith of Salvation. Mazhab relates to the sectarian part of the Din. Thus a Mahomedan is of the Din-i Islam, but may be of the Shirth or Sunni Mazhab. Din is everywhere used as the Mahomedan war cry : Din I Din For the faith ! For the faith ! The principles of the Koran generally, but in particular the text in chapters 8 and 47 which inculcates war against non -Mahomedans, and death in the contest as the surest passport to heaven, have established amongst Mahomedans intimate connection between the spiritual aspira tion and political convictions. Ilami - i - Din, Defender of the Faith. Din-pana, Protector of the Faith.
DIN or Dina, IIIND., a day, considered in a great variety of ways and durations, of which the following are the principal:— 1st, a &yam, or Bhutni savana dina, a natural day, being the time between two sunrisings.
2d, a Saura dina. Of these tbere are two kinds ; ati.1 the similarity of the name tends greatly to confuse the beginners in the study of IIindu astronomy. First, the absolute sense of Saura being sidereal, the Saura dine. is the time between the same point of the ecliptic rising twice ; or, more precisely, the time between the equinoctial points rising twice. Second, the other Saura dina is the time which the sun takes to describe one degree of the ecliptic. It follows, therefore, that, strictly speaking., neither of these kinds of days are equal throughout the year, yet the former (which is also called Naeshatra dina) are supposed t,o be so in the first steps of several operations. Such is also the case with the latter, but this only happens when calculating the mean elements of the planets by the Vacyam process.
3d, Diva dina is equal to a sidereal revolution of the sun.
4th, Pitrya dina, to a synodical revolution of the moon.
5th, Brahma dina is equal to a calpa, or 4,320,000,000 years, his nights being equal to his day.
6th, Yuga dina is another word for Ahargana, meaning the nurnber of days expired from the commencement of a yug. Yuga dina also means the anniversary day of that on which a yug began, which is always noticed in the kalenditr. —Warren's ICala Sanhita.