CC Madhya 20.388

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

Madhya-līlā 20.387 - Madhya-līlā 20.389

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 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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