तत्रत्यानां दिवसमध्यङ्गत एव सदादित्यस्तपति सव्येनाचलं दक्षिणेन करोति
॥८॥ यत्रोदेति तस्य ह समानसूत्रनिपाते निम्लोचति यत्र क्वचन
स्यन्देनाभितपति तस्य हैष समानसूत्रनिपाते प्रस्वापयति तत्र गतं न पश्यन्ति
ये तं समनुपश्येरन् ॥९॥

tatratyÄnÄá¹ divasa-madhyaá¹…gata eva sadÄdityas tapati savyenÄcalaá¹ daká¹£iṇena karoti; yatrodeti tasya ha samÄna-sÅ«tra-nipÄte nimlocati yatra kvacana syandenÄbhitapati tasya haiá¹£a samÄna-sÅ«tra-nipÄte prasvÄpayati tatra gataá¹ na paÅ›yanti ye taá¹ samanupaÅ›yeran

 tatratyÄnÄm - for the living entities residing on Mount Meru; divasa-madhyaá¹…gataḥ - being positioned as at midday; eva - indeed; sadÄ - always; Ädityaḥ - the sun; tapati - heats; savyena - to the left side; acalam - Sumeru Mountain; daká¹£iṇena - to the right (being forced by wind blowing to the right, the sun moves to the right); karoti - moves; yatra - the point where; udeti - it rises; tasya - of that position; ha - certainly; samÄna-sÅ«tra-nipÄte - at the diametrically opposite point; nimlocati - the sun sets; yatra - where; kvacana - somewhere; syandena - with perspiration; abhitapati - heats (at midday); tasya - of that; ha - certainly; eá¹£aḥ - this (the sun); samÄna-sÅ«tra-nipÄte - at the diametrically opposite point; prasvÄpayati - the sun causes to sleep (as at midnight); tatra - there; gatam - gone; na paÅ›yanti - do not see; ye - who; tam - the sunset; samanupaÅ›yeran - seeing.


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The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is always overhead. Although the sun moves counterclockwise, facing the constellations, with Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise and appears to have the mountain on its right because it is influenced by the daká¹£iṇÄvarta wind. People living in countries at points diametrically opposite to where the sun is first seen rising will see the sun setting, and if a straight line were drawn from a point where the sun is at midday, the people in countries at the opposite end of the line would be experiencing midnight. Similarly, if people residing where the sun is setting were to go to countries diametrically opposite, they would not see the sun in the same condition.

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