Devi Bhagavata Purana — Skandha 8 — Chapter 14
DB 8 14.1
सूर्यगतिवर्णनम् नारायण उवाच ततः परस्तादचलो लोकालोकेति नामकः । अन्तराले च लोकालोकयोर्यः परिकल्पितः
sūryagativarṇanam nārāyaṇa uvāca tataḥ parastādacalo lokāloketi nāmakaḥ | antarāle ca lokālokayoryaḥ parikalpitaḥ
Description of the sun's course. Nārāyaṇa said: Beyond that is the mountain named Lokāloka, which has been set in the interval between the (region of) light and the (region of) darkness.
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DB 8 14.2
यावदस्ति च देवर्षे ह्यन्तरं मानसोत्तरात् । सुमेरोस्तावती शुद्धा काञ्चनी भूमिरस्ति हि
yāvadasti ca devarṣe hyantaraṃ mānasottarāt | sumerostāvatī śuddhā kāñcanī bhūmirasti hi
And as great, O divine sage, as is the distance from Mānasottara to Sumeru, just so great is the pure golden land there.
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DB 8 14.3
दर्पणोदरतुल्या सा सर्वप्राणिविवर्जिता । यस्यां पदार्थः प्रहितो न किञ्चित्प्रत्युदीयते
darpaṇodaratulyā sā sarvaprāṇivivarjitā | yasyāṃ padārthaḥ prahito na kiñcitpratyudīyate
It is like the surface of a mirror, devoid of all living creatures; on it no object that is cast down comes back up at all.
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DB 8 14.4
अतः सर्वप्राणिसङ्घरहिता सा च नारद । लोकालोक इति व्याख्या यदत्र परिकल्पिता
ataḥ sarvaprāṇisaṅgharahitā sā ca nārada | lokāloka iti vyākhyā yadatra parikalpitā
Therefore, Nārada, it is free of the throng of all living beings; whence the designation 'Lokāloka' has been devised for it here.
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DB 8 14.5
लोकालोकान्तरे चास्य वर्तते सर्वदा स्थितिः । ईश्वरेण स लोकानां त्रयाणामन्तगः कृतः
lokālokāntare cāsya vartate sarvadā sthitiḥ | īśvareṇa sa lokānāṃ trayāṇāmantagaḥ kṛtaḥ
And its standing is always in the interval between light and darkness; by the Lord it was made to reach the end of the three worlds.
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DB 8 14.6
सूर्यादीनां ध्रुवान्तानां रश्मयो यद्वशादिह । अर्वाचीनाश्च त्रीँल्लोकानातन्वानाः कदापि हि
sūryādīnāṃ dhruvāntānāṃ raśmayo yadvaśādiha | arvācīnāśca trī~llokānātanvānāḥ kadāpi hi
By its power here the rays of the sun and the rest, up to Dhruva, being turned this way and spreading over the three worlds, never at any time
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DB 8 14.7
पराचीनत्वभाजो हि न भवन्ति च नारद । तावदुन्नहनायामः पर्वतेन्द्रो महोदयः
parācīnatvabhājo hi na bhavanti ca nārada | tāvadunnahanāyāmaḥ parvatendro mahodayaḥ
(Their rays) do not come to pass beyond (that limit), Nārada; so great is the upward height of that lord of mountains, mighty in its rise.
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DB 8 14.8
एतावाँल्लोकविन्यासोऽयं संस्थामानलक्षणैः । कविभिः स तु पञ्चाशत्कोटिभिर्गणितस्य च
etāvā~llokavinyāso'yaṃ saṃsthāmānalakṣaṇaiḥ | kavibhiḥ sa tu pañcāśatkoṭibhirgaṇitasya ca
Such is this arrangement of the worlds, (described) by the seers by way of its structure, measure and marks; and that (measure) is reckoned by fifty crores.
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DB 8 14.9
भूगोलस्य चतुर्थांशो लोकालोकाचलो मुने । तस्योपरि चतुर्दिक्षु ब्रह्मणा चात्मयोनिना
bhūgolasya caturthāṃśo lokālokācalo mune | tasyopari caturdikṣu brahmaṇā cātmayoninā
The Lokāloka mountain is a fourth part of the terrestrial globe, O sage; upon it, in the four directions, by Brahmā who is born of himself—
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DB 8 14.10
निवेशिता दिग्गजा ये तन्नामानि निबोधत । ऋषभः पुष्पचूडोऽथ वामनोऽथापराजितः
niveśitā diggajā ye tannāmāni nibodhata | ṛṣabhaḥ puṣpacūḍo'tha vāmano'thāparājitaḥ
—were stationed the elephants of the quarters; learn their names: Ṛṣabha, Puṣpacūḍa, then Vāmana, and then Aparājita.
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DB 8 14.11
एते समस्तलोकस्य स्थितिहेतव ईरिताः । तेषां च स्वविभूतीनां बहुवीर्योपबृंहणम्
ete samastalokasya sthitihetava īritāḥ | teṣāṃ ca svavibhūtīnāṃ bahuvīryopabṛṃhaṇam
These are declared to be the causes of the standing firm of the whole world; and (there is) the augmenting with abundant power of them, who are his own manifestations,
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DB 8 14.12
विशुद्धसत्त्वं चैश्वर्यं वर्धयन्भगवान् हरिः । आस्ते सिद्ध्यष्टकोपेतो विष्वक्सेनादिसंवृतः
viśuddhasattvaṃ caiśvaryaṃ vardhayanbhagavān hariḥ | āste siddhyaṣṭakopeto viṣvaksenādisaṃvṛtaḥ
—the Lord Hari, increasing (their) wholly pure being and lordship, abides there, attended by the eight perfections and surrounded by Viṣvaksena and the rest.
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DB 8 14.13
निजायुधैः परिवृतो भुजदण्डैः समन्ततः । आस्ते सकललोकस्य स्वस्तये परमेश्वरः
nijāyudhaiḥ parivṛto bhujadaṇḍaiḥ samantataḥ | āste sakalalokasya svastaye parameśvaraḥ
Surrounded on every side by his own weapons (held) in his staff-like arms, the Supreme Lord abides there for the well-being of the entire world.
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DB 8 14.14
आकल्पमेवं वेषं स गतो विष्णुः सनातनः । स्वमायारचितस्यास्य गोपीथायात्मसाधनः सूर्यगतिवर्णनं नाम चतुर्दशोऽध्यायः
ākalpamevaṃ veṣaṃ sa gato viṣṇuḥ sanātanaḥ | svamāyāracitasyāsya gopīthāyātmasādhanaḥ sūryagativarṇanaṃ nāma caturdaśo'dhyāyaḥ
That eternal Viṣṇu has assumed such a guise until the end of the aeon, being his own means, for the protection of this (world) fashioned by his own māyā. (Thus) the fourteenth chapter, called "The Description of the Sun's Course."
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DB 8 14.15
योऽन्तर्विस्तार एतेन ह्यलोकपरिमाणकम् । व्याख्यातं यद्बहिर्लोकालोकाचल इतीरणात्
yo'ntarvistāra etena hyalokaparimāṇakam | vyākhyātaṃ yadbahirlokālokācala itīraṇāt
That which is the inner extent—by this the measure of the region without worlds has been explained, since it is said that the Lokāloka mountain is outside (it).
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DB 8 14.16
ततः परस्ताद्योगेशगतिं शुद्धा वदन्ति हि । अण्डमध्यगतः सूर्यो द्यावाभूम्योर्यदन्तरम्
tataḥ parastādyogeśagatiṃ śuddhā vadanti hi | aṇḍamadhyagataḥ sūryo dyāvābhūmyoryadantaram
Beyond that the pure ones declare (there is) the course of the lord of yoga. The sun is situated in the middle of the (cosmic) egg—that which is the space between heaven and earth.
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DB 8 14.17
सूर्याण्डगोलयोर्मध्ये कोट्यः स्युः पञ्चविंशतिः । मृतेऽण्ड एष एतस्मिञ्जातो मार्तण्डशब्दभाक्
sūryāṇḍagolayormadhye koṭyaḥ syuḥ pañcaviṃśatiḥ | mṛte'ṇḍa eṣa etasmiñjāto mārtaṇḍaśabdabhāk
Between the sun and the sphere of the egg there are twenty-five crores (of leagues). This one, born in this egg when the egg was dead, bears the name Mārtaṇḍa.
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DB 8 14.18
हिरण्यगर्भ इति यद्धिरण्याण्डसमुद्भवः । सूर्येण हि विभज्यन्ते दिशः खं द्यौर्महीभिदा
hiraṇyagarbha iti yaddhiraṇyāṇḍasamudbhavaḥ | sūryeṇa hi vibhajyante diśaḥ khaṃ dyaurmahībhidā
He is called Hiraṇyagarbha because he arose from the golden egg. Indeed by the sun are distinguished the directions, the sky, heaven, with the division of the earth,
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DB 8 14.19
स्वर्गापवर्गौ नरका रसौकांसि च सर्वशः । देवतिर्यङ्मनुष्याणां सरीसृपसवीरुधाम्
svargāpavargau narakā rasaukāṃsi ca sarvaśaḥ | devatiryaṅmanuṣyāṇāṃ sarīsṛpasavīrudhām
heaven and release, the hells, and the watery abodes in every way, and (the stations) of gods, animals, men, creeping things and plants.
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DB 8 14.20
सर्वजीवनिकायानां सूर्य आत्मा दृगीश्वरः । एतावान्भूमण्डलस्य सन्निवेश उदाहृतः
sarvajīvanikāyānāṃ sūrya ātmā dṛgīśvaraḥ | etāvānbhūmaṇḍalasya sanniveśa udāhṛtaḥ
The sun is the self and the lord of sight of all the hosts of living beings. Such is the disposition of the earth-circle as it has been declared.
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DB 8 14.21
एतेन हि दिवो मानं वर्णयन्ति च तद्विदः । द्विदलानां च निष्पावादीनां च दलयोर्यथा
etena hi divo mānaṃ varṇayanti ca tadvidaḥ | dvidalānāṃ ca niṣpāvādīnāṃ ca dalayoryathā
By this, indeed, those who know it describe the measure of heaven too; as with the two halves of split things such as beans and the like,
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DB 8 14.22
अन्तरेण तयोरन्तरिक्षं तदुभयसन्धितम् । यन्मध्यगश्च भगवान् भानुर्वै तपतां वरः
antareṇa tayorantarikṣaṃ tadubhayasandhitam | yanmadhyagaśca bhagavān bhānurvai tapatāṃ varaḥ
in the space between those two lies the mid-region, joined to them both; and he who moves in the middle of it is the lord Sun, best of the burning ones.
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DB 8 14.23
आतपेन त्रिलोकं च प्रतपत्येव भासयन् । उत्तरायणमासाद्य गतिमान्द्यं वितन्वते
ātapena trilokaṃ ca pratapatyeva bhāsayan | uttarāyaṇamāsādya gatimāndyaṃ vitanvate
With his heat he scorches the three worlds even as he illumines them. Reaching the northern course, (the sun's horses) draw out a slowness of motion,
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DB 8 14.24
आरोहणस्थानमसौ गत्वाहो दैर्ध्यमाचरेत् । दक्षिणायनमासाद्य गतिशैघ्र्यं वितन्वते
ārohaṇasthānamasau gatvāho dairdhyamācaret | dakṣiṇāyanamāsādya gatiśaighryaṃ vitanvate
and going to the place of ascent he makes the day long; reaching the southern course they draw out a swiftness of motion,
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DB 8 14.25
अवरोहस्थानमसौ गच्छन्ह्रस्वं दिनं चरेत् । विषुवत्संज्ञमासाद्य गतिसाम्यं वितन्वते
avarohasthānamasau gacchanhrasvaṃ dinaṃ caret | viṣuvatsaṃjñamāsādya gatisāmyaṃ vitanvate
and going to the place of descent he makes the day short; reaching what is called the equinox they draw out an evenness of motion,
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DB 8 14.26
समस्थानमथासाद्य दिनसाम्यं करोति च । यदा च मेषतुलयोः सञ्चरेद्धि दिवाकरः
samasthānamathāsādya dinasāmyaṃ karoti ca | yadā ca meṣatulayoḥ sañcareddhi divākaraḥ
and then, reaching the level station, he makes the day equal (to the night); for when the maker of day moves in Aries and Libra,
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DB 8 14.27
समानानि त्वहोरात्राण्यातनोति त्रयीमयः । वृषादिपञ्चसु यदा राशिष्वर्को विरोचते
samānāni tvahorātrāṇyātanoti trayīmayaḥ | vṛṣādipañcasu yadā rāśiṣvarko virocate
Then he who consists of the three Vedas makes days and nights equal; and when the sun shines in the five signs beginning with Taurus—
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DB 8 14.28
तदाहानि च वर्धन्ते रात्रयोऽपि ह्रसन्ति च । वृश्चिकादिषु सूर्यो हि यदा सञ्चरते रविः
tadāhāni ca vardhante rātrayo'pi hrasanti ca | vṛścikādiṣu sūryo hi yadā sañcarate raviḥ
—then the days increase and the nights also grow shorter; but when the sun moves through (the signs) beginning with Scorpio,
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DB 8 14.29
तदापीमान्यहोरात्राणि भवन्ति विपर्ययात्
tadāpīmānyahorātrāṇi bhavanti viparyayāt
then too these days and nights come about, (but) in the reverse way.
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