320 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 21

Usnik, Jagati, Tristup, Anustup and Pankti. They are harnessed by a
demigod known as Arunadeva toa yoke 900,000 yojanas wide. Thus the
chariot carries Adityadeva, the sun-god. Always staying in front of the
sun-god and offering their prayers are sixty thousand sages known as
Valikhilyas. There are fourteen Gandharvas, Apsaras and other
demigods, who are divided into seven parties and who perform ritualistic
activities every month to worship the Supersoul through the sun-god ac-
cording to different names. Thus the sun-god travels through the
universe for a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas (760,800,000 miles) at a
speed of 16,004 miles at every moment.

TEXT 1
HA SUF
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Sri-Suka uvdca
etavan eva bhi-valayasya sannivesah pramdna-laksanato

vyakhyatah.

Sri-Sukah uvdca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; etava€n—so much;
eva—certainly; bhit-valayasya sannivesah—the arrangement of the
whole universe; pramdna-laksanatah—according to measurement (fifty
crores of yojanas, or four billion miles in width and length) and charac-
teristics; vyakhyatah —estimated.

TRANSLATION
Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, I have thus far described

the diameter of the universe [fifty crores of yojanas, or four
billion miles] and its general characteristics, according to the
estimations of learned scholars.

TEXT 2

uaa fe trai aeaatd afac satatea gar feeosftcqadar
a weartoredttd agaraterayz 12
