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DEVENDRASTAVA : 29
93.
These carrier gods carry the vehicles thus - As lions in the East, as great elephants in the South, as oxen in the West and as horses in the North.
THE SPEED AND WEALTH OF THE JYOTIŞA GODS
94.
The Suns are faster than the Moons; the Grahas (planets) are faster than the Suns; the Nakşatras (constellations) are faster still and the Stars are the fastest.
95.
The Moons are the slowest and the Stars are the fastest. The speeds of the Jyotiska gods have been described thus.
96.
The Stars have little affluence, the Nakșatras are, certainly, more affluent than the Stars. Similarly, the Grahas are more affluent than the Nakşatras, the Suns are more affluent than the Grahas and the Moons are the most affluent of all.
THE LIMITS AND EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS OF THE POSITIONS (ORBITS) OF THE JYOTISKA GODS
97.
The Abhijita-Naksatra is the innermost, the Mūla-Naksatra the outermost, the Swāti-Nakşatra the uppermost and the Bharani-Nakşatra the lowest.
98.
Certainly, all the Grahas (planets) and Nakşatras (constellations) are situated between the Moons and the Suns. The stars are above, below and in the same plane as the Suns and the Moons.
99.
Without interruption, the minimum interval between the stars is five hundred bows and the maximum interval is two Gavyuti (Kosa) or four thousand bows.
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