Shloka 1

सूर्यरथ-रचना, ध्रुव-प्रेरणा, मास-गणाः च

Jyotish-chakra: Surya’s Motion and Monthly Retinues

Devanagari script

इति श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणे पूर्वभागे ज्योतिश्चक्रे सूर्यगत्यादिकथनं नाम चतुःपञ्चाशत्तमो ऽध्यायः सूत उवाच छरिओत् ओफ़् सूर्य सौरं संक्षेपतो वक्ष्ये रथं शशिन एव च ग्रहाणाम् इतरेषां च यथा गच्छति चाम्बुपः

Transliteration

iti śrīliṅgamahāpurāṇe pūrvabhāge jyotiścakre sūryagatyādikathanaṃ nāma catuḥpañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ sūta uvāca chariot of Sūrya sauraṃ saṃkṣepato vakṣye rathaṃ śaśina eva ca grahāṇām itareṣāṃ ca yathā gacchati cāmbupaḥ

Translation

So beginnt im Śrī Liṅga-Mahāpurāṇa, im ersten Teil (Pūrva-bhāga), im Abschnitt über das Rad der Leuchten, das vierundfünfzigste Kapitel über den Lauf der Sonne und verwandte Themen. Sūta sprach: „Ich werde kurz den Wagen der Sonne beschreiben, ebenso den Wagen des Mondes, und auch, wie die übrigen Planeten ihre Bahnen am Himmel ziehen.“

Word by Word

• iti: thus

• śrī-liṅga-mahāpurāṇe: in the auspicious Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa

• pūrva-bhāge: in the former section

• jyotiḥ-cakre: in the wheel/system of luminaries (astral order)

• sūrya-gati-ādi-kathanam: the narration of the Sun’s motion and related topics

• nāma: named

• adhyāyaḥ: chapter

• sūta uvāca: Sūta said

• sūryasya: of the Sun

• sauraṃ: belonging to Sūrya/solar

• saṃkṣepataḥ: briefly

• vakṣye: I will explain

• ratham: chariot

• śaśinaḥ: of the Moon

• eva ca: and also

• grahāṇām: of the planets

• itareṣām: of the others

• ca: and

• yathā: how/in what manner

• gacchati: they move/proceed

• ambupaḥ: in the sky/ether (as a moving expanse)

Speaker

Sūta (Sūta Gosvāmin) narrating to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya