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XIII.6 XIII. SITUATION OF THE EARTH 249
3. Just as the reflection of the objects on the bund of a water course is
upside-down, so the Asuras are, (with respect to the Devas). The Asuras too
consider the Devas to be upside-down.
4. Just as the flame of the fire, observed by men here, flares upwards, and
anything thrown up falls down towards the earth, the same upward flaring of
the flame, and the down-ward falling of a heavy object is experienced by the
Asuras, (at the anti-podal region).
[भूभ्रमणम्] मेरोः सममुपरि वियत्यक्षो व्योमस्थितो ध्रुवो (ऽधोऽ)न्यः ।
तत्र निबद्धो मरुता प्रवहेन भ्राम्यते भगणः ॥ ५ ॥
भ्रमति भ्रमिस्थितेव क्षितिरित्यपरे वदन्ति नोडुगणः ।
यद्येवं श्येनाद्याः न खात्पुनः स्वनिलयमुपेयुः ॥ ६ ॥
Rotation of the earth
5. The axis of the earth extends right up and right down to the stellar
sphere. The stellar sphere, bound by the axis to the earth, rotates by the wind
system called Pravaha.
Note: Seven wind systems are spoken of by Hindu astronomers. The uppermost, blowing
permanently westward in the region of the planets and stars, is the cause of their westward rotation
once a day.
6. Others say that the earth rotates on its axis, like an object placed at the
hub of a wheel, and not the stars. If so, birds like the eagle flying up into the
sky, cannot reach their nests back.
Note. This is what is meant: During the time they are away from the nest, they would have been
carried far away by the rotating earth, from the spot of origin of their flight and the birds cannot
reach the nest. But they do reach, and so this theory is false.
3a. A.B. तजासंताना (B3. सेताना); C. तटसङ्गताना Utpala on BS 2,pp.56-57, and 6 c-d quoted by
b. B1.3. दृशाते Pṛthūdaka on BrSS 21.4.
c. A1. तद्वगत्ति; A2. तद्वंक्षति; B. तद्वक्षगति. B. पंन्यन्ते
A. Hapl. om. रसुराणां [... मसुराणां] त 5a. B. समुपवियत्पक्षो; U. समोपरि. A. वियत्पक्षो
(in verse 4) b. U. व्योम्नि स्थितो A.B. ध्रुवो धन्यः
d. B1.2. विबुधानाम् c. A. निबधो A. मतुला; B1.3. महता; B2. मरुता
4a-b. B. शिखाक्षितिमुपैति; D. शिखा [क्षिप्तमपि] क्षिति d. B. द्राहवेन; C.D.U. प्रवहेण
c. B. तद्वदिह 6a. A. भ्रम B. स्थिते च; U. स्थितिरिव
5. Quoted by Utpala on BS 2,p.56 b. A. त्पपरे B1. नोद्रुगणः
and by Pṛthūdaka on BrSS 21.4: 6-8 quoted by c. B. पद्येवं A. शेनाद्या; B. शेनाधा