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[Description of the Time-Sphere (Human-Sphere)] Their movement is transverse, from the innermost circle to the outermost circle and from the outermost circle to the innermost circle. // 12 // // The Moon, Sun, Stars, Major Planets and Stars, with their specific movements, affect the happiness and sorrow of humans. // 13 // // As the Sun and Moon enter from the outermost circle to the innermost circle, their heat-sphere increases daily, in a regular manner, in proportion to the effort (of the soul). And in the same order, as they exit from the innermost circle to the outside, the heat-sphere of the Sun and Moon decreases daily. // 14 // // The path of the heat-sphere of those Moon-Suns is like the shape of a Kadamba flower. It is narrow in the direction of Meru and wide in the direction of the Salt Sea. // 15 // // O Bhagavan! Why does the Moon increase in the waxing phase and decrease in the waning phase? What is the reason for the waning and waxing phases? // 16 // // . Gautama! The Rahu-Vimana, of dark color, always remains four fingers away from the Moon, moving below the Moon-Vimana. // (In this way, as it moves, it gradually reveals the Moon in the waxing phase and gradually covers it in the waning phase. // 17 // // In the waxing phase, the Moon increases by 62 parts of the Moon-Vimana daily, and in the waning phase, it decreases by 62 parts. [Here, the explanation of 62 parts should be done in such a way that the Moon-Vimana should be divided into 62 parts. Of these, the top two parts are naturally not capable of being covered (covered), so they should be left out. When the remaining 60 parts are divided by 15, four parts are obtained. // These four parts should be understood as the meaning of 62 parts here. Chanikara has also given a similar explanation. According to tradition, the sutra should be explained, not by one's own intellect.] // 18 // // In the waning phase, the Rahu-Vimana covers the fifteenth part of the Moon-Vimana with its fifteenth part, and in the waxing phase, it releases that same fifteenth part. // 19 // // In this way, the Moon increases and decreases, and for this reason, there are waning and waxing phases. // 20 // // Within the Human-Sphere, there are five types of celestial bodies: Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars and Stars, which are in motion. // 21 // // Beyond (outside) the two and a half islands, the five types of Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars and Stars do not move, do not move (from the circular motion), therefore they are situated (stationary). // 22 // // _ In this Jambudvipa, there are two Moons and two Suns. In the Salt Sea, there are four Moons and four Suns. In the Ghataki-Khanda, there are twelve Moons and twelve Suns. // 23 // // In Jambudvipa, there are two Moons and two Suns. // There are twice as many in the Salt Sea, and three times as many Moons and Suns in the Ghataki-Khanda as there are in the Salt Sea. // 24 // //