Verse 6

¹Ten thousand yojanas below the sun, some say, Svarbhanu moves like a star-house. He is the son of Simhika, the lowest of the demons, and he got deathlessness and a place among the wandering lights by the Bhagavan's kindness, though he did not deserve it. His birth and his doings, dear one, we shall tell later. ²The disc of the sun that burns above is said to be ten thousand yojanas across, the moon's twelve thousand, and Rahu's thirteen thousand. Holding to an old enmity, at the joints of the month he runs at the sun and the moon and makes a screen between. ³Seeing this, the Bhagavan's own dear weapon, the disc named Sudarsana, is set to guard them both. Its heat, as it turns and turns, is more than Rahu can bear. He stands facing it for a moment, then shakes, and with a frightened heart goes off while still far away. People call this the eclipse.

⁴Below that, at just that distance, are the homes of the siddhas, the caranas and the vidyadharas. ⁵Below them the middle air is the playing-ground of the hosts of yaksas, raksasas, pisacas, pretas and bhutas, as far as the wind blows and as far as clouds are seen. ⁶A hundred yojanas below that is this earth, reaching as high as swans, vultures, hawks, Suparnas and the other best of birds fly up.