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There are sixty thousand saintly persons named Vālikhilyas, each the size of a thumb, who are located in front of …

Similarly, fourteen other saints, Gandharvas, Apsarās, Nāgas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas and demigods, who are divided into groups of two, assume different …

My dear King, in his orbit through Bhū-maṇḍala, the sun-god traverses a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles] at the …

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, I have thus far described the diameter of the universe [fifty crores of yojanas, …

As a grain of wheat is divided into two parts and one can estimate the size of the upper part …

In the midst of that region of outer space [antarikṣa] is the most opulent sun, the king of all the …

When the sun passes through Meṣa [Aries] and Tulā [Libra], the durations of day and night are equal. When it …

When the sun passes through the five signs beginning with Vṛścika [Scorpio], the duration of the days decreases [until Capricorn], …

Until the sun travels to the south the days grow longer, and until it travels to the north the nights …

Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued; My dear King, as stated before, the learned say that the sun travels over all sides of …

The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is …

When the sun travels from Devadhānī, the residence of Indra, to Saṁyamanī, the residence of Yamarāja, it travels 23,775,000 yojanas …

From the residence of Yamarāja the sun travels to Nimlocanī, the residence of Varuṇa, from there to Vibhāvarī, the residence …

Thus the chariot of the sun-god, which is trayīmaya, or worshiped by the words om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ, travels through …

The chariot of the sun-god has only one wheel, which is known as Saṁvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to …

As in an oil-pressing machine, this first axle is attached to a second axle, which is one-fourth as long [3,937,500 …

My dear King, the carriage of the sun-god’s chariot is estimated to be 3,600,000 yojanas [28,800,000 miles] long and one-fourth …

Although Aruṇadeva sits in front of the sun-god and is engaged in driving the chariot and controlling the horses, he …

śrī-śukaḥ uvāca — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; etāvān — so much; eva — certainly; bhū-valayasya sanniveśaḥ — the arrangement of …