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[Jyotishka Chandra-Suryaadhikār] 181 Those star-like gods who are situated above the moon and the sun, are they inferior or equal in comparison to the Dhuti etc.? Yes, Gautama! Some are inferior and some are equal. Bhagavan! Why is it said that some star-gods are inferior and some are equal? Gautama! Just as there is excellence or lack of excellence in the rules and Brahmacharya etc. done in the previous births of those star-like gods, in the same proportion there is minuteness or equality in them. Therefore, Gautama! It is said that those star-like gods who are below, in the same category, or above the moon and the sun, are inferior as well as equal. In each family of the moon and the sun, there are eighty-eight (88) planets, twenty-eight (28) constellations, and the number of stars is sixty-six thousand nine hundred seventy-five (66975) Kodakodi. 192. In Jambudvipa, Bante! How far does the sun travel from the easternmost point of the two Mandara mountains to the westernmost point? / Gotama! The sun travels a distance of eleven hundred and twenty-one yojanas. Similarly, from the southernmost point to the northernmost point, the sun travels a distance of eleven hundred and twenty-one yojanas. Bante! How far does the moon travel? Gotama! The moon travels a distance of eleven hundred and eleven yojanas. Bante! How far does the sun travel in the sky from the earth, which is illuminated by the rays of the sun, to the highest point where the stars travel? How far does it travel in the Surya-vimana? How far does it travel in the Chandra-vimana? How far does it travel in the sky from the highest point where the stars travel? Gotama! From the earth, which is illuminated by the rays of the sun, the sun travels a distance of seven hundred and nine yojanas to the highest point where the stars travel. It travels a distance of one hundred yojanas in the Surya-vimana. It travels a distance of eighty yojanas in the Chandra-vimana. It travels a distance of no yojanas from the highest point where the stars travel. Bante! How far does the sun travel in the Surya-vimana from the lowest point where the stars travel? How far does it travel in the Chandra-vimana? How far does it travel in the sky from the highest point where the stars travel? Gotama! From the lowest point where the stars travel, the sun travels a distance of ten yojanas in the Surya-vimana. It travels a distance of nine yojanas in the Chandra-vimana. It travels a distance of ten yojanas from the highest point where the stars travel. Bante! How far does the Surya-vimana travel in the Chandra-vimana? How far does it travel in the sky from the highest point where the stars travel?