Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila Chapter 20 Verse 388

Madhya-līlā | Chapter 20: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 20.388

rātri-dine haya ṣaṣṭi-daṇḍa-parimāṇa

tina-sahasra chaya-śata 'pala' tāra māna

SYNONYMS

rātri-dine — during the whole day and night; haya — there is; ṣaṣṭi-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.

TRANSLATION

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

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