rātri-dine haya ṣaṣṭi-daṇḍa-parimāṇa
tina-sahasra chaya-śata 'pala' tāra māna

 rātri-dine - during the whole day and night; haya - there is; ášŁaᚣᚭi-daṇḍa - of sixty daṇḍas (a measure of time); parimāṇa - duration; tina-sahasra - three thousand; chaya-śata - six hundred; pala - palas; tāra - of that; māna - measurement.


Text

“According to Vedic astronomical calculations, the rotation of the sun consists of sixty daṇḍas, and it is divided into thirty-six hundred palas.

Purport