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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 22]
wheel of time;  dhruvam —the star known as Dhruvaloka;  merum —the mountain known as Sumeru;  ca —and;  pradakṣiṇena —on the right;  paridhāvatā —going around;  saha —with;  paridhāvamānānām —of those going around;  tat-āśrayāṇām —whose shelter is that wheel of time;  sūrya-ādīnām —headed by the sun;  grahāṇām —of the planets;  gatiḥ —the motion;  anyā —other;  eva —certainly;  nakṣatra-antare —in different stars;  rāśi-antare —in different signs;  ca —and;  upalabhyamānatvāt —due to being observed.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvānū clearly answered:  When a potter's wheel is moving and small ants located on that big wheel are moving with it, one can see that their motion is different from that of the wheel because they appear sometimes on one part of the wheel and sometimes on another. Similarly, the signs and constellations, with Sumeru and Dhruvaloka on their right, move with the wheel of time, and the antlike sun and other planets move with them. The sun and planets, however, are seen in different signs and constellations at different times. This indicates that their motion is different from that of the zodiac and the wheel of time itself.
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स एष भगवानादिपुरुष एव साक्षात्रारायणो लोकानां स्वस्त्य आत्मानं त्रयीमयं कर्मविशुद्धिनिमित्तं कविभिरपि च वेदेन विजिज्ञास्यमानो द्वादशधा विभज्य षट्सु वसन्तादिष्वृतुषु यथोपजोषमृतुगुणान् विदधाति ॥ ३ ॥
sa eṣa bhagavān ādi-puruṣa eva sākṣān nārāyaṇo lokānāṁ svastaya ātmānaṁ trayīmayaṁ karma-viśuddhi-nimittaṁ kavibhir api ca vedena vijijñāsyamāno dvādaśadhā vibhajya ṣaṭsu vasantādiṣv ṛtuṣu yathopa-joṣam ṛtu-guṇān vidadhāti.
saḥ—that; eṣaḥ—this; bhagavān—the supremely powerful; ādi-puruṣaḥ—the original person; eva—certainly; sākṣāt—directly; nārāyaṇaḥ—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa; lokānām—of all the planets; svastaye—for the benefit; ātmānam—