Verse 19

¹³Its one wheel, which they call the year, has twelve spokes, six rims and three hubs. Its axle is set with one end on the crest of Meru and the other end on Manasottara; and the wheel of the sun's chariot, fixed on that axle, turns like the wheel of an oil press, going round on the Manasottara mountain. ¹⁴A second axle is rooted in that one, a quarter of it in measure, and its upper end is set in Dhruva as the axle of an oil press is set. ¹⁵The body of the chariot is three million six hundred thousand yojanas long and a quarter of that across, and the yoke of the sun's chariot is as long. There the horses, named for the metres, seven of them, harnessed by Aruna, carry the god the sun.

¹⁶In front of the sun, and facing backwards, Aruna sits, set to the work of driving. ¹⁷So too the sages called Valakhilyas, the size of a thumb-joint, sixty thousand of them, are set in front of the sun to speak the hymns, and they praise him. ¹⁸And other sages, gandharvas and apsarases, snakes, headmen, night-walkers and gods, one group of each kind, seven groups of fourteen, month by month attend on the Bhagavan the sun, the self, who has many names, two at a time and each by their own work, they themselves bearing many separate names. ¹⁹The circuit of the earth-circle is ninety-five million one hundred thousand yojanas, and of it he covers two thousand yojanas and a gavyuti more in a moment.