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144.
In the brighter fortnight, one sixty-second part of the Moon increases daily while it decreases by the same amount in the darker fortnight of every lunar month.
145.
Fifteen parts of the Moon get gradually covered by fifteen parts of Rāhu in the fifteen days of the darker half of the lunar month and in the brighter half they get gradually uncovered.
146.
Thus, the Moon waxes and wanes. These are the reasons for the darker and the brighter halves of the lunar months and the Moon-light and its darkness.
147.
MOVING AND STATIC JYOTISKAS The Jyotiska gods born and peregrinating in the human universe are of five types – the Moons, the Suns, the constellations, the planets and the stars.
148.
Besides these, there are the Suns, the Moons, the planets, the constellations and stars that are without the human universe. They neither move nor peregrinate.
NUMBERS OF MOONS, SUNS ETC OVER THE JAMBŪDVĪPA AND THEIR DIFFERENCES FROM THOSE OVER THE OTHER DVĪPAS AND SAMUDRAS 149. These Jyotiska gods are twice in the Jambūdvīpa, four times
in the Lavana-Samudra, and three times that much in the Dhataki-khanda.
150.
Thus, there are two Moons (and two Suns) in this (Jambu) dvīpa, in the Lavana-Samudra there are four Moons (and four Suns) and in the Dhataki-khanda the number of Moons is three times four i.e. twelve.
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