kṛṣṇa kahe, "ei brahmāṇḍa pañcāśat koṭi yojana
ati kᚣudra, tāte tomāra cāri vadana

 kṛṣṇa kahe - Kṛṣṇa said; ei brahmāṇḍa - this universe; paĂącāśat koáš­i yojana - four billion miles; ati kᚣudra - very small; tāte - therefore; tomāra - your; cāri vadana - four faces.


Text

“Kṛṣṇa said, ‘Your particular universe has a diameter of four billion miles; therefore it is the smallest of all the universes. Consequently you have only four heads.

Purport

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, one of the greatest astrologers of his time, gives information from the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi that this universe measures 18,712,069,200,000,000 × 8 miles. This is the circumference of this universe. According to some, this is only half the circumference.