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The Movements of the Sun
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chariot, and the saints called the Vālikhilyas surround the sun-god and offer prayers. The seven groups of fourteen associates arrange the proper times for regular snow, heat and rain throughout the universe.
TEXT 19
लक्षोत्तरं सार्धनवकोटियोजनपरिमण्डलं भूवलयस्य क्षणेन सगन्ध्युत्पुत्तरं द्विसहस्र योजनानि स भुङ्क्ते ॥१९॥
lakṣottaram sārdha-nava-koṭi-yojana-parimaṇḍalam bhū-valayasya kṣaṇena sagavyūty-uttaram dvi-sahasra-yojanāni sa bhuṅkte.
lakṣa-uttaram—increased by 100,000; sārdha—with 5,000,000; nava-koṭi-yojana—of 90,000,000 yojanas; parimaṇḍalam—circum- ference; bhū-valayasya—of the earthly sphere; kṣaṇena—in one moment; sagavyūti-uttaram—augmented by two krośas (four miles); dvi-sahasra-yojanāni—2,000 yojanas; saḥ—the sun-god; bhuṅkte— traverses.
TRANSLATION
My dear King, in his orbit through Bhūmaṇḍala, the sun-god traverses a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles] at the speed of 2,000 yojanas and two krośas [16,004 miles] in a moment.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twenty-first Chapter of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled, “The Movements of the Sun.”