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CHAPTER THREE
Ten yojanas above it is the sun, and at the end of eighty yojanas above the sun is the moon; then the stars and planets at the end of twenty yojanas. 288 So the stellar world is one hundred and ten yojanas high. The circle of heavenly bodies (jyotişcakra) moves continually, formed in a circle, in all directions at a distance of eleven hundred and twenty-one yojanas from Mt. Meru of Jambūdvipa. But one polar star is fixed.289 It (the jyotişcakra) remains fixed in a circle, not touching the end of the world by eleven hundred and eleven yojanas.240 Among these Svāti is above all and Bharani is below all; to the south of all Mula and Abhici to the north.241 There are two suns and two moons belonging to this Jambūdvipa ; four moons and four suns belonging to Lavapoda; twelve moons and twelve suns to Dhätakikhanda; and forty-two moons and forty-two suns to Kāloda. To half of Puşkara belong seventy-two suns and moons each. So there are one hundred and thirty-two moons and the same number of suns (in the manuşyaloka). Each moon has a retinue of eighty-eight planets, twenty-eight constellations, and six pentillion, six hundred and ninety-seven quadrillion, five hundred trillion stars.
The width and length of the moon's car is it of a yojana ; of the sun's car 4 of a yojana ; half a yojana of those of the planets; one-fourth of a yojana of those of the constellations; half a kos (= yojana) of those of all the stars having a maximum life; and five hundred bows (=to yojana) of those of all the stars having a minimum life. The height is always half the length. They are (like this) in the manuşyaloka extending forty-five lacs of yojanas.
In the east lions, in the south elephants, in the west
238 531. They are all not really at the end, but distributed along the way. Cf. K., p. 278. 289 533. Elsewhere (cf. K., p. 279), there are many polar stars.
34. This is the very last jyotişcakra. 241 535. These are constellations.
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