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ORBITS REGIONS AND SPEEDS OF JYOTISKAS
136.
The Suns, Moons, groups of Planets, etc are loosely bonded and, hence, they revolve around Mt. Meru in a clock-wise direction.
137.
Permanent orbits of constellations and stars are also similar. They, too, circumscribe Mt. Meru in a clock-wise direction.
138.
The Suns and the Moons do not move vertically. Their motions are inner, outer, transverse and circular.
139.
The specific movements of the Jyotiskas such as the Moons, 1 the Suns, the constellations, etc affect the pleasures and the pains in human lives.
140.
As a rule, the temperatures rise as we go nearer these Jyotiskas and they decrease as we go farther away from
them.
141.
Their heat regions are in the shape of Kalambuka flowers. The shapes of the heat regions of the Suns and the Moons are narrower within and wider without.
WAXING AND WANING OF THE MOON
142. Why does the Moon wax? Why does it wane? What are
the reasons for the Moon-light and its blackness?
143.
The black vehicle (Vimāna) of Rāhu always follows the Moon at a distance of four fingers below the Moon's path.
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