Shloka 68

भुवनकोशविन्यासनिर्णयः (ज्योतिर्गति-वृष्टिचक्र-वर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

ग्रहान् निःसृत्य सूर्यात् तु कृत्स्ने नक्षत्रमण्डले चारस्यान्ते विशत्यर्के ध्रुवेण समधिष्ठिता

Transliteration

grahān niḥsṛtya sūryāt tu kṛtsne nakṣatramaṇḍale cārasyānte viśatyarke dhruveṇa samadhiṣṭhitā

Translation

太陽より出でた諸惑星は、全てのナクシャトラの圏を巡行し、巡りの終わりに再び太陽へと入る。彼らはドゥルヴァ（北極星）によって堅く統御され、安定せしめられている。

Word by Word

• grahān: the planets

• niḥsṛtya: having gone forth/emerged

• sūryāt: from the Sun

• tu: indeed

• kṛtsne: in the whole/entire

• nakṣatra-maṇḍale: in the circle/sphere of the nakṣatras (lunar mansions)

• cārasya: of the movement/orbit

• ante: at the end

• viśati: enters

• arke: into Arka (the Sun)

• dhruveṇa: by Dhruva (Pole Star)

• sam-adhiṣṭhitā: firmly presided over/regulated

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana discourse)