Madhya 20.388

TEXT 388

TEXT

রাত্রি-দিনে হয় ষষ্টিদণ্ড-পরিমাণ ।
তিনসহস্র ছয়শত 'পল' তার মান ॥ ৩৮৮ ॥

ratri-dine haya sasti-danda-parimana

tina-sahasra chaya-sata 'pala' tara mana

SYNONYMS

ratri-dine-during the whole day and night; haya-there is; sasti-danda-of sixty dandas (a measure of time); parimana-duration; tina-sahasra-three thousand; chaya-sata-six hundred; pala-palas; tara-of that; mana-measurement.

TRANSLATION

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

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