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62. Question: What is the mutual difference between the Jyotishka Vimanas?
Answer: The minimum difference between the stars is one-seventh of a Kos, the medium difference is fifty Kos and the excellent difference is one thousand Yojanas. The minimum difference between the Sun and the Sun and the Moon and the Moon is 66,640 Yojanas, the excellent difference is 1,00,660 Yojanas. (Ra. Va. 4) 63. Question: How many Jyotishi Devas are there outside the Ardha-dvipa and where are they located?
Answer: In the first ring of the outer part of the Pushkarardha Dvipa, there are 144 Chandras and 144 Suryas, and in the second and subsequent rings, there is an increase of four from the first and subsequent rings. In the beginning of the islands and oceans of the east-east, the number of Chandras and Suryas is doubled in the beginning of the islands and oceans of the north. For example, in the first ring of the Pushkarardha Dvipa, there are 144-144 Chandras and Suryas, in the first ring of the Pushkaravar Ocean, there are 288-288 Chandras and Suryas, etc.
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Going 50,000 Yojanas from the Manushoत्तर Mountain, there are 144-144 Chandras and Suryas in the first ring of the Bahuy Pushkarardha. Going one lakh Yojanas ahead from the first ring, there are Chandras and Suryas in the second and subsequent rings with an increase of four in each. Similarly
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