Kurma Purana — Purva Vibhaga — Chapter 41
KuP 1 41.1
सूत उवाच एवमेष महादेवो देवदेवः पितामहः । करोति नियतं कालं कालात्मा ह्यैश्वरी तनुः
sūta uvāca evameṣa mahādevo devadevaḥ pitāmahaḥ / karoti niyataṃ kālaṃ kālātmā hyaiśvarī tanuḥ
Sūta said: Thus this Mahādeva, god of gods, grandfather, makes time regulated — he whose self is time, the body of sovereignty.
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KuP 1 41.2
तस्य ये रश्मयो विप्राः सर्वलोकप्रदीपकाः । तेषां श्रेष्ठाः पुनः सप्त रश्मयो ग्रहयोनयः
tasya ye raśmayo viprāḥ sarvalokapradīpakāḥ / teṣāṃ śreṣṭhāḥ punaḥ sapta raśmayo grahayonayaḥ
His rays, O brahmins, illumine all the worlds; among them again seven rays are foremost, being the sources of the planets.
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KuP 1 41.3
सुषुम्नो हरिकेशश्च विश्वकर्मा तथैव च । विश्वव्यचाः पुनश्चान्यः संयद्वसुरतः परः
suṣumno harikeśaśca viśvakarmā tathaiva ca / viśvavyacāḥ punaścānyaḥ saṃyadvasurataḥ paraḥ
Suṣumna and Harikeśa, and likewise Viśvakarman, and again another, Viśvavyacas, and after that Saṃyadvasu,
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KuP 1 41.4
अर्वावसुरिति ख्यातः स्वराडन्यः प्रकीर्तितः । सुपुम्नः सूर्यरश्मिस्तु पुष्णाति शिशिरद्युतिम्
arvāvasuriti khyātaḥ svarāḍanyaḥ prakīrtitaḥ / supumnaḥ sūryaraśmistu puṣṇāti śiśiradyutim
(one) known as Arvāvasu, and another is declared to be Svarāj. The sun-ray Suṣumna nourishes the cool-rayed (moon).
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KuP 1 41.5
तिर्यगूर्ध्वप्रचारो ऽसौ सुषुम्नः परिपठ्यते । हरिकेशस्तु यः प्रोक्तो रश्मिर्नक्षत्रपोषकः
tiryagūrdhvapracāro 'sau suṣumnaḥ paripaṭhyate / harikeśastu yaḥ prokto raśmirnakṣatrapoṣakaḥ
That (ray) whose course is crosswise and upward is recited as Suṣumṇa; and the ray called Harikeśa is the nourisher of the constellations.
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KuP 1 41.6
विश्वकर्मा तथा रश्मिर्बुधं पुष्णाति सर्वदा । विश्वव्यचास्तु यो रश्मिः शुक्रं पुष्णाति नित्यदा
viśvakarmā tathā raśmirbudhaṃ puṣṇāti sarvadā / viśvavyacāstu yo raśmiḥ śukraṃ puṣṇāti nityadā
So too the ray Viśvakarman always nourishes Mercury; and the ray which is Viśvavyacas nourishes Venus perpetually.
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KuP 1 41.7
संयद्वसुरिति ख्यातः स पुष्णाति च लोहितम् । वृहस्पतिं प्रपुष्णाति रश्मिरर्वावसुः प्रभोः । शनैश्चरं प्रपुष्णाति सप्तमस्तु सुराट् तथा
saṃyadvasuriti khyātaḥ sa puṣṇāti ca lohitam / vṛhaspatiṃ prapuṣṇāti raśmirarvāvasuḥ prabhoḥ / śanaiścaraṃ prapuṣṇāti saptamastu surāṭ tathā
The one known as Saṃyadvasu nourishes the red (planet, Mars); the lord's ray Arvāvasu nourishes Jupiter; and the seventh, Surāṭ, nourishes Saturn.
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KuP 1 41.8
एवं सूर्यप्रभावेन सर्वा नक्षत्रतारकाः । वर्धन्ते वर्धिता नित्यं नित्यमाप्याययन्ति च
evaṃ sūryaprabhāvena sarvā nakṣatratārakāḥ / vardhante vardhitā nityaṃ nityamāpyāyayanti ca
Thus by the sun's power all the constellations and stars grow, and, having grown, they constantly cause (things) to swell (with nourishment).
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KuP 1 41.9
दिव्यानां पार्थिवानां च नैशानां चैव सर्वशः । आदानान्नित्यमादित्यस्तेजसां तमसां प्रभुः
divyānāṃ pārthivānāṃ ca naiśānāṃ caiva sarvaśaḥ / ādānānnityamādityastejasāṃ tamasāṃ prabhuḥ
Because he constantly takes up (the light) of the heavenly, the earthly and the nocturnal (luminaries) in every way, the sun is lord of the radiances and of the darknesses.
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KuP 1 41.10
आदत्ते स तु नाडीनां सहस्त्रेण समन्ततः । नादेयांश्चैव सामुद्रान् कूप्यांश्चैव सहस्त्रदृक् । स्थावराञ्जङ्गमांश्चैव यच्च कुल्यादिकं पयः
ādatte sa tu nāḍīnāṃ sahastreṇa samantataḥ / nādeyāṃścaiva sāmudrān kūpyāṃścaiva sahastradṛk / sthāvarāñjaṅgamāṃścaiva yacca kulyādikaṃ payaḥ
He takes up (water) on all sides with a thousand channels (of rays): the thousand-eyed one takes up the waters of rivers, of oceans, of wells, of things unmoving and moving, and whatever water is in canals and the like.
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KuP 1 41.11
तस्य रश्मिसहस्त्रं तच्छीतवर्षोष्णनिस्त्रवम् । तासां चतुः शतं नाड्यो वर्षन्ते चित्रमूर्तयः
tasya raśmisahastraṃ tacchītavarṣoṣṇanistravam / tāsāṃ catuḥ śataṃ nāḍyo varṣante citramūrtayaḥ
That thousand of rays of his is the outflow of cold, rain and heat; of those channels four hundred, of varied form, send rain.
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KuP 1 41.12
वन्दनाश्चैव याज्याश्च केतना भूतनास्तथा । अमृता नाम ताः सर्वा रश्मयो वृष्टिसर्जनाः
vandanāścaiva yājyāśca ketanā bhūtanāstathā / amṛtā nāma tāḥ sarvā raśmayo vṛṣṭisarjanāḥ
The Vandanās, the Yājyās, the Ketanās and the Bhūtanās — all those rays, which release rain, are called the Amṛtās.
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KuP 1 41.13
हिमोद्वाहाश्च ता नाड्यो रश्मयस्त्रिशतं पुनः । रश्म्यो मेष्यश्च पौष्यश्च ह्लादिन्यो हिमसर्जनाः । चन्द्रास्ता नामतः सर्वाः पीताभाः स्युर्गभस्तयः
himodvāhāśca tā nāḍyo raśmayastriśataṃ punaḥ / raśmyo meṣyaśca pauṣyaśca hlādinyo himasarjanāḥ / candrāstā nāmataḥ sarvāḥ pītābhāḥ syurgabhastayaḥ
And those channels which bear snow, three hundred rays again: the Meṣyās, the Pauṣyās and the Hlādinīs, which release snow — those rays are all by name Candras, and are pale-yellow in hue.
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KuP 1 41.14
शुक्राश्च ककुभश्चैव गावो विश्वभृतस्तथा । शुक्रास्ता नामतः सर्वास्त्रिविधा घर्मसर्जनाः
śukrāśca kakubhaścaiva gāvo viśvabhṛtastathā / śukrāstā nāmataḥ sarvāstrividhā gharmasarjanāḥ
The Śukras, the Kakubhs, the Gāvas and the Viśvabhṛts — those, threefold, which release heat, are all called Śukras by name.
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KuP 1 41.15
समं बिभर्ति ताभिः स मनुष्यपितृदेवताः । मनुष्यानौषधेनेह स्वधया च पितॄनपि । अमृतेन सुरान् सर्वांस्त्रिभिस्त्ररिंस्तर्पयत्यसौ
samaṃ bibharti tābhiḥ sa manuṣyapitṛdevatāḥ / manuṣyānauṣadheneha svadhayā ca pitṝnapi / amṛtena surān sarvāṃstribhistrariṃstarpayatyasau
With those he equally supports men, ancestors and gods: men here by herbs, and the ancestors by the svadhā offering, and all the gods by ambrosia — thus by three sets of three hundred he satisfies (them).
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KuP 1 41.16
वसन्ते ग्रैष्मिके चैव शतैः स तपति त्रिभिः । शरद्यपि च वर्षासु चतुर्भैः संप्रवर्षति । हेमन्ते शिशिरे चैव हिममुत्सृजति त्रिभिः
vasante graiṣmike caiva śataiḥ sa tapati tribhiḥ / śaradyapi ca varṣāsu caturbhaiḥ saṃpravarṣati / hemante śiśire caiva himamutsṛjati tribhiḥ
In spring and in summer he burns with three hundred (rays); in autumn too and in the rains he pours rain with four hundred; in the cold season and the dewy season he releases snow with three hundred.
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KuP 1 41.17
वरुणो माघमासे तु सूर्यः पूषा तु फल्गुने । चैत्रे मासि भवेदंशो धाता वैशाखतापनः
varuṇo māghamāse tu sūryaḥ pūṣā tu phalgune / caitre māsi bhavedaṃśo dhātā vaiśākhatāpanaḥ
In the month of Māgha the sun is Varuṇa, in Phālguna Pūṣan; in the month of Caitra he is Aṃśa; Dhātṛ is the one who burns in Vaiśākha.
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KuP 1 41.18
ज्येष्ठामूले भवेदिन्द्रः आषाढे सविता रविः । विवस्वान् श्रावणे मासि प्रौष्ठपद्यां भगः स्मृतः
jyeṣṭhāmūle bhavedindraḥ āṣāḍhe savitā raviḥ / vivasvān śrāvaṇe māsi prauṣṭhapadyāṃ bhagaḥ smṛtaḥ
In Jyeṣṭha-Mūla he is Indra, in Āṣāḍha the sun is Savitṛ; in the month of Śrāvaṇa Vivasvat, and in Prauṣṭhapadī he is held to be Bhaga.
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KuP 1 41.19
पर्जन्यो ऽश्वयुजि त्वष्टाकार्तिके मासि भास्करः । मार्गशीर्ष भवेन्मित्रः पौषे विष्णुः सनातनः
parjanyo 'śvayuji tvaṣṭākārtike māsi bhāskaraḥ / mārgaśīrṣa bhavenmitraḥ pauṣe viṣṇuḥ sanātanaḥ
In Āśvayuja he is Parjanya, in the month of Kārttika the shining one is Tvaṣṭṛ; in Mārgaśīrṣa he is Mitra, in Pauṣa the eternal Viṣṇu.
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KuP 1 41.20
पञ्चरश्मिसहस्त्राणि वरुणस्यार्ककर्मणि । षड्भिः सहस्त्रैः पूषा तु देव्ॐशः सप्तभिस्तथा
pañcaraśmisahastrāṇi varuṇasyārkakarmaṇi / ṣaḍbhiḥ sahastraiḥ pūṣā tu devoṃśaḥ saptabhistathā
In the sun's work Varuṇa has five thousand rays; Pūṣan six thousand, and the god Aṃśa seven.
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KuP 1 41.21
धाताष्टभिः सहस्त्रैस्तु नवभिस्तु शतक्रतुः । विवस्वान् दशभिः पाति पात्येकादशभिर्भगः
dhātāṣṭabhiḥ sahastraistu navabhistu śatakratuḥ / vivasvān daśabhiḥ pāti pātyekādaśabhirbhagaḥ
Dhātṛ with eight thousand, and Śatakratu with nine; Vivasvat protects with ten, Bhaga protects with eleven.
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KuP 1 41.22
सप्तभिस्तपते मित्रस्त्वष्टा चैवाष्टभिस्तपेत् । अर्यमा दशभैः पाति पर्जन्यो नवभिस्तपेत् । षड्भी रश्मिसहस्त्रैस्तु विष्णुस्तपति विश्वसृक्
saptabhistapate mitrastvaṣṭā caivāṣṭabhistapet / aryamā daśabhaiḥ pāti parjanyo navabhistapet / ṣaḍbhī raśmisahastraistu viṣṇustapati viśvasṛk
Mitra burns with seven, and Tvaṣṭṛ burns with eight; Aryaman protects with ten, Parjanya burns with nine; and with six thousand rays Viṣṇu, maker of all, burns.
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KuP 1 41.23
वसन्ते कपिलः सूर्यो ग्रीष्मे काञ्चनसप्रभः । श्वेतो वर्षासु वर्णेन पाण्डुरः शरदि प्रभुः । हेमन्ते ताम्रवर्णः स्याच्छिशिरे लोहितो रविः
vasante kapilaḥ sūryo grīṣme kāñcanasaprabhaḥ / śveto varṣāsu varṇena pāṇḍuraḥ śaradi prabhuḥ / hemante tāmravarṇaḥ syācchiśire lohito raviḥ
In spring the sun is tawny, in summer of golden radiance; in the rains white in colour, in autumn the lord is pale; in the cold season he is copper-coloured, and in the dewy season the sun is red.
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KuP 1 41.24
ओषधीषु बलं धत्ते स्वधामपि पितृष्वथ । सूर्यो ऽमरत्वममृते त्रयं त्रिषु नियच्छति
oṣadhīṣu balaṃ dhatte svadhāmapi pitṛṣvatha / sūryo 'maratvamamṛte trayaṃ triṣu niyacchati
He places strength in the herbs, and the svadhā offering among the ancestors; the sun places immortality in the ambrosia — the three (he sets) in the three.
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KuP 1 41.25
अन्ये चाष्टौ ग्रहा ज्ञेयाः सूर्येणाधिष्ठिता द्विजाः । चन्द्रमाः सोमपुत्रश्च शुक्रश्चैव बृहस्पतिः । भौमो मन्दस्तथा राहुः केतुमानपि चाष्टमः
anye cāṣṭau grahā jñeyāḥ sūryeṇādhiṣṭhitā dvijāḥ / candramāḥ somaputraśca śukraścaiva bṛhaspatiḥ / bhaumo mandastathā rāhuḥ ketumānapi cāṣṭamaḥ
And eight other planets are to be known, presided over by the sun, O twice-born: the moon, the son of Soma (Mercury), Venus, and Jupiter, Mars, the slow one (Saturn), Rāhu, and the comet-bearer (Ketu) as the eighth.
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KuP 1 41.26
सर्वे ध्रुवे निबद्धा वै ग्रहास्ते वातरश्मिभिः । भ्राम्यमाणा यथायोगं भ्रमन्त्यनुदिवाकरम्
sarve dhruve nibaddhā vai grahāste vātaraśmibhiḥ / bhrāmyamāṇā yathāyogaṃ bhramantyanudivākaram
All those planets are bound to the Pole Star by cords of wind, and, being whirled about, they revolve after the sun each according to its own course.
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KuP 1 41.27
अलातचक्रवद् यान्ति वातचक्रेरिता द्विजाः । यस्माद् वहति तान् वायुः प्रवहस्तेन स स्मृतः
alātacakravad yānti vātacakreritā dvijāḥ / yasmād vahati tān vāyuḥ pravahastena sa smṛtaḥ
Driven by the wheel of wind, they go like a circle (traced by) a firebrand, O twice-born; because that wind carries them along (pravahati), it is called Pravaha.
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KuP 1 41.28
रथस्त्रिचक्रः सोमस्य कुन्दाभास्तस्य वाजिनः । वामदक्षिणतो युक्ता दश तेन निशाकरः
rathastricakraḥ somasya kundābhāstasya vājinaḥ / vāmadakṣiṇato yuktā daśa tena niśākaraḥ
The moon's chariot has three wheels; his horses are the colour of jasmine, ten of them yoked on the left and on the right, and by it (goes) the night-maker.
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KuP 1 41.29
वीथ्याश्रयाणि चरति नक्षत्राणि रविर्यथा । ह्रासवृद्धी च विप्रेन्द्रा ध्रुवाधाराणि सर्वदा
vīthyāśrayāṇi carati nakṣatrāṇi raviryathā / hrāsavṛddhī ca viprendrā dhruvādhārāṇi sarvadā
(The moon) travels through the constellations that rest in the (celestial) paths, as the sun does; and its waning and waxing, O chiefs of brahmins, always have the Pole Star as their support.
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KuP 1 41.30
स सोमः शुक्लपक्षे तु भास्करे परतः स्थिते । आपूर्यते परस्यान्तः सततं दिवसक्रमात्
sa somaḥ śuklapakṣe tu bhāskare parataḥ sthite / āpūryate parasyāntaḥ satataṃ divasakramāt
That moon, in the bright fortnight, when the sun stands beyond it, is filled up within the far (side), continually, by the succession of days.
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KuP 1 41.31
क्षीणायितं सुरैः सोममाप्यायति नित्यदा । एकेन रश्मिना विप्राः सुषुम्नाख्येन भास्करः
kṣīṇāyitaṃ suraiḥ somamāpyāyati nityadā / ekena raśminā viprāḥ suṣumnākhyena bhāskaraḥ
(The sun) constantly replenishes the moon, wasted away by the gods; with a single ray, O brahmins, called Suṣumnā, the sun (does this).
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KuP 1 41.32
एषा सूर्यस्य वीर्येण सोमस्याप्यायिता तनुः । पौर्णमास्यां स दृश्येत संपूर्णे दिवसक्रमात्
eṣā sūryasya vīryeṇa somasyāpyāyitā tanuḥ / paurṇamāsyāṃ sa dṛśyeta saṃpūrṇe divasakramāt
This body of the moon is replenished by the sun's power; at the full moon it is seen complete, through the succession of days.
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KuP 1 41.33
संपूर्णमर्धमासेन तं सोमममृतात्मकम् । पिबन्ति देवता विप्रा यतस्ते ऽमृतभोजनाः
saṃpūrṇamardhamāsena taṃ somamamṛtātmakam / pibanti devatā viprā yataste 'mṛtabhojanāḥ
That moon, made of nectar, filled full in half a month, the gods drink, O brahmins, whence they are eaters of nectar.
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KuP 1 41.34
ततः पञ्चदशे भागे किञ्चिच्छिष्टे कलात्मके । अपराह्णे पितृगणा जघन्यं पर्युपासते
tataḥ pañcadaśe bhāge kiñcicchiṣṭe kalātmake / aparāhṇe pitṛgaṇā jaghanyaṃ paryupāsate
Then, when a little remains in the fifteenth part consisting of a digit, in the afternoon the hosts of the fathers attend upon the last portion.
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KuP 1 41.35
पिबन्ति द्विकलं कालं शिष्टा तस्य कला तुया । सुधामृतमयीं पुण्यां तामन्दोरमृतात्मिकाम्
pibanti dvikalaṃ kālaṃ śiṣṭā tasya kalā tuyā / sudhāmṛtamayīṃ puṇyāṃ tāmandoramṛtātmikām
They drink for the time of two digits; and that digit of his which remains — that pure one, made of the nectar of ambrosia, belonging to the nectar-natured moon —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KuP 1 41.36
निः सृतं तदमावास्यां गभस्तिभ्यः स्वधामृतम् । मासतृप्तिमपाप्यग्र्यां पितरः सन्ति निर्वृताः
niḥ sṛtaṃ tadamāvāsyāṃ gabhastibhyaḥ svadhāmṛtam / māsatṛptimapāpyagryāṃ pitaraḥ santi nirvṛtāḥ
that svadhā-nectar which issues forth from (his) rays on the new-moon day — having obtained from it a foremost satisfaction lasting a month, the fathers are content.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KuP 1 41.37
न सोमस्य विनाशः स्यात् सुधा देवैस्तु पीयते । एवं सूर्यनिमित्तस्य क्षयो वृद्धिश्च सत्तमाः
na somasya vināśaḥ syāt sudhā devaistu pīyate / evaṃ sūryanimittasya kṣayo vṛddhiśca sattamāḥ
There would be no destruction of the moon; rather the ambrosia is drunk by the gods. Such, O best of men, is (the moon's) waning and waxing, which has the sun as its cause.
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KuP 1 41.38
सोमपुत्रस्य चाष्टाभिर्वाजिभिर्वायुवेगिभिः । वारिजैः स्यन्दनो युक्तस्तेनासौ याति सर्वतः
somaputrasya cāṣṭābhirvājibhirvāyuvegibhiḥ / vārijaiḥ syandano yuktastenāsau yāti sarvataḥ
And the chariot of Soma's son (Mercury) is yoked with eight horses born of water, swift as the wind, and by it he goes everywhere.
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KuP 1 41.39
शुक्रस्य भूमिजैरश्वैः स्यन्दनो दशभिर्वृतः । अष्टबिश्चाथ भौमस्य रथो हैमः सुशोभनः
śukrasya bhūmijairaśvaiḥ syandano daśabhirvṛtaḥ / aṣṭabiścātha bhaumasya ratho haimaḥ suśobhanaḥ
Venus's chariot is furnished with ten horses born of the earth; and Mars's golden, very beautiful chariot with eight.
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KuP 1 41.40
बृहस्पतेरथाष्टाश्वः स्यन्दनो हेमनिर्मितः । रथस्तमोमयो ऽष्टाश्वो मन्दस्यायसनिर्मितः । स्वर्भानोर्भास्करारेश्च तथा षड्भिर्हयैर्वृतः
bṛhaspaterathāṣṭāśvaḥ syandano hemanirmitaḥ / rathastamomayo 'ṣṭāśvo mandasyāyasanirmitaḥ / svarbhānorbhāskarāreśca tathā ṣaḍbhirhayairvṛtaḥ
Then Jupiter's chariot, made of gold, has eight horses; Saturn's chariot, made of iron and composed of darkness, has eight horses; and (the chariots) of Svarbhānu (Rāhu) and of the sun's enemy (Ketu) are likewise furnished with six horses (each).
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KuP 1 41.41
एते महाग्रहाणां वै समाख्याता रथा नव । सर्वे ध्रुवे महाभागा निबद्धा वातरश्मिभिः
ete mahāgrahāṇāṃ vai samākhyātā rathā nava / sarve dhruve mahābhāgā nibaddhā vātaraśmibhiḥ
These nine chariots of the great planets have been declared. All of them, O greatly fortunate ones, are bound to the Pole Star by cords of wind.
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KuP 1 41.42
ग्रहर्क्षताराधिष्ण्यानि ध्रुवे बद्धान्येशेषतः । भ्रमन्ति भ्रामयन्त्येनं सर्वाण्यनिलरश्मिभिः
graharkṣatārādhiṣṇyāni dhruve baddhānyeśeṣataḥ / bhramanti bhrāmayantyenaṃ sarvāṇyanilaraśmibhiḥ
The planets, lunar mansions, stars and constellations are all, without exception, bound to the Pole Star; they revolve, and by their cords of wind they all cause it to revolve.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition