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The Movements of the Sun
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TRANSLATION
The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is always overhead. Although the sun moves counterclockwise, facing the constellations, with Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise and appears to have the mountain on its right because it is influenced by the dakṣiṇāvarta wind. People living in countries at points diametrically opposite to where the sun is first seen rising will see the sun setting, and if a straight line were drawn from a point where the sun is at midday, the people in countries at the opposite end of the line would be experiencing midnight. Similarly, if people residing where the sun is setting were to go to countries diametrically opposite, they would not see the sun in the same condition.
TEXT 10
यदा चैन्द्याः पुर्याः प्रचलते पञ्चदशघटिकाभिर्याम्यां सपादकोटिद्वयं योजनानां सार्धद्वादशलक्षाणि साधिकानि चोपयाति ॥ १० ॥
yadā caindryāḥ puryāḥ pracalate pañcadaśa-ghaṭikābhir yāmyām sapāda-koṭi-dvayam yojanānām sārdha-dvādaśa-lakṣāṇi sādhikāni copayāti.
yadā —when;  ca —and;  aindryāḥ —of Indra;  puryāḥ —from the residence;  pracalate —it moves;  pañcadaśa —by fifteen;  ghaṭikābhiḥ —half hours (actually twenty-four minutes);  yāmyām —to the residence of Yamarāja;  sapāda-koṭi-dvayam —two and a quarter crores (22,500,000);  yojanānām —of  yojanas ;  sārdha —and one half;  dvādaśa-lakṣāṇi —twelve hundred thousand;  sādhikāni —twenty-five thousand more;  ca —and;  upayāti —he passes over.
TRANSLATION
When the sun travels from Devadhānī, the residence of Indra, to Saṅyamanī, the residence of Yamarāja, it travels 23,775,000 yojanas [190,200,000 miles] in fifteen ghaṭikās [six hours].