Srimad Bhagavatam. Canto 5: The Creative Impetus

Chapter 21: The Movements of the Sun. Text 12

एवं मुहूर्तेन चतुस्त्रिंशल्लक्षयोजनान्यष्टशताधिकानि सौरो रथस्त्रयीमयोऽसौ चतसृषु
परिवर्तते पुरीषु ॥१२॥

evaá¹ muhÅ«rtena catus-trimÅ›al-laká¹£a-yojanÄny aṣṭa-Å›atÄdhikÄni sauro rathas trayÄ«mayo 'sau catasṛṣu parivartate purÄ«á¹£u

 evam - thus; muhÅ«rtena - in a muhÅ«rta (forty-eight minutes); catuḥ-trimÅ›at - thirty-four; laká¹£a - hundred thousands; yojanÄni - yojanas; aṣṭa-Å›atÄdhikÄni - increased by eight hundred; sauraḥ rathaḥ - the chariot of the sun-god; trayÄ«-mayaḥ - which is worshiped by the GÄyatrÄ« mantra (oá¹ bhÅ«r bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur, etc.); asau - that; catasṛṣu - to the four; parivartate - he moves; purÄ«á¹£u - through different residential quarters.


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Thus the chariot of the sun-god, which is trayīmaya, or worshiped by the words om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ, travels through the four residences mentioned above at a speed of 3,400,800 yojanas [27,206,400 miles] in a muhūrta.

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