Verse 10

⁵Then this self of the worlds, going on the wheel of time in the circle of the sky between heaven and earth, passes through twelve months, the parts of the year named for the signs. A month, they teach, is two fortnights, a day and a night, and two and a quarter lunar houses. As much as makes a sixth part of his passage is taught to be a season, another part of the year. ⁶And the time in which he travels half the road of the sky they call a course. ⁷And the time in which he passes wholly through the circle of the sky together with the circles of heaven and earth is reckoned, by the sun's slow, quick and even goings, as samvatsara, parivatsara, idavatsara, anuvatsara and vatsara.

⁸So the moon, seen a hundred thousand yojanas above the sun's rays, passes in two fortnights what the sun passes in a year, in two and a quarter lunar houses what he passes in a month, and in a single day what he passes in a fortnight, running ahead of him and moving much faster. ⁹By his digits as they fill he spreads out the days and nights of the immortals, and by his digits as they waste those of the fathers, through the first fortnight and the second. He is the breath of the whole host of the living, and the life in them, and he passes through one lunar house in thirty muhurtas. ¹⁰This Person of sixteen digits, the Bhagavan, made of mind, made of food, made of what does not die, they describe as made of everything, because it is his way to feed the breath of gods, fathers, men, beings, cattle, birds, creeping things and plants.