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the well-being of the inhabitants of the universe. They circumam-
bulate the supreme abode of Lord Visnu, known as Dhruvaloka,
the polestar.

PURPORT

Srila Madhvacarya quotes the following verse from the Brahmanda
Purdna:

Jiidnanandatmano visnuh
sisuméra-vapusy atha

tirdhva-lokesu sa vydpta
Gdityadyas tad-asrita

Lord Visnu, who is the source of knowledge and transcendental bliss, has
assumed the form of Sisumara in the seventh heaven, which is situated
in the topmost level of the universe. All the other planets, beginning
with the sun, exist under the shelter of this Sisumara planetary system.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twenty-
second Chapter of Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “The Orbits of the
Planets.”
