Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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Jambūdvīpa island, four suns, four moons, one hundred and seventy-two Naksatras, three hundred and fifty-two planets, two lakhs sixty-seven thousand and nine hundred stars in LavanaSamudra (Salt sea), twelve suns, twelve moons, three hundred thirty-six Nakşatras, one thousand fifty-six planets, eight lakhs three thousund seven hundred crores of stars (tārāganakodikodīņań), forty-two suns, forty-two moons, one thousand one hundred and seventy-six Naleşatras, three thousand six hundred and ninety-six great planets, twelve thousand and twenty-eight (atthāvīsar bārasa ya taha sahas sāin), nine hundred fifty crores of stars in Kaloda; one hundred and forty-four suns, one hundred forty-four moons, four thousand thirty-two Nakşatras, twelve thousand six hundred and seventy-two great planets, ninety-six lakhs forty-four thousand and four hundred crores of stars in Puslarārdhadvīpa; seventy-two suns, seventy-two moons, two thousand and sixteen Naksatras, six thousand three hundred and thirty-six great planets and forty-eight lakhs, twenty-two thousand and two hundred crores of stars in Abhyantarapuskarārdha (Puşkaravaradvzpārdha), one hundred and thirtytwo suns, one hundred and thirty-two moons, three thousand six hundred and ninety-six Naksatras, eleven thousand ninety-six great planets and eighty-eight lakhs forty-thousand and seven hundred less by one crores of stars in Manusyaloka (human worlu).
It is difficult to explain how far the numbers of the suns, the moons, the Naksatras, the planets and the stars given here are correct without the proper astronomical research studies at the present state of inowledge. But one thing is clear from the above evidences that they formed the Jyotişkas according to the Jaina texts.
Solar System The Sun
The sun (Sura) is called Aditya because it is the first of all the members of the solar system, such as, the moon, the planets, the Naksatras, the stars, etc., upto the unit
| BhS, 9, 2, 363. See Comm.
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