Text 10] The Movements of the Sun 327
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 constella-
tions, with Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise
and appears to have the mountain on its right because it is in-
fluenced by the daksinavarta 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 op-
posite 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
a tan ga: wawd waqqaeatara anceitad
° 9 AN

Maat aI erat | AIA | Bo I

yada caindryah puryah pracalate pavicadasa-ghatikabhir yamyam
sapada-koti-dvayam yojandnam sardha-dvadasa-laksani sadhikani
copayati.

yadaé—when; ca—and; aindryah—of Indra; puryah—from the resi-
dence; pracalate—it moves; paficadasa—by fifteen; ghatikabhih—half
hours (actually twenty-four minutes); yG@myam—to the residence of
Yamaraja; sapdda-koti-dvayam—two and a quarter crores (22,500,000);
yojandnam—of yojanas; sdrdha—and one half; dvddasa-laksani—
twelve hundred thousand; sddhikani—twenty-five thousand more; ca—
and; upaydti—he passes over.

TRANSLATION

When the sun travels from Devadhani, the residence of Indra, to
Sarnyamani, the residence of Yamaraja, it travels 23,775,000 yo-
janas [190,200,000 miles] in fifteen ghatikas [six hours].
