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The Finfra Jyotişk, Stollar hcarenly bodies are looated in the upper portion of one hundred and ten yojanas of fate 1 Tiry&o Loka, the Middle World, which foring an intervening space of eighteen hundred yojanas-namely-nine hundred yojanas above the reta17 staat Madhya Rucaka Pradeśa, the central Ruoaka space in the middle of Mount Moru ( whence the directions commetioe ) and nine hundred yojanas below it.
They are arranged in the following order -
The stellars begin at a height of 790 yojanas from the level of the earth on which we live. The lowest are the Stars. Ten yojanas above them are the Suns. Eighty yojanas above the suns are the Moons. Four yojanas above the moons, are the Nakgatras ( Constellations ). Four yojanas above the Naksatras is the Planet of Buddha (Mercury). Three yojanas above it, is the Planet Sukra * (Venus). Three yojanas above the Planet Sukra is the Planot Brihaspati artria Jupiter. Three yojanas above it is the Planet Mangala ÅT or Angāraka TTC Planet Mars, and three yojanas above all of them is the Planet Saniścara
at the Planet Satura.
Thus included in a space of one hundred and ten yojanas, upto 900 yojabes from the level of the earth upwards are found the stellar classes of celestial bodies. The yojana to be calculated here is of 2000 kosas.
Some of these heavenly bodies are re Cara, Moving round Mount Meru, and some of them are feere Sthira, Immovable. The stellar bodies within the Manuşya kşdtra (human regions ) are moving, while those outside it are immovable.
Detailed descriptions of the various forms of movements of these heavenly bodies and of the distances of their orbits from the central. Rucaka Pradeśa, are given in Frafa Süryaprajnapti T ata Candraprajnapti, and other works of a kindred nature.
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