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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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tata upariṣṭād dvi-lakṣa-yojanato nakṣatrāṇi meruṁ dakṣiṇenaiva kālāyana īśvara-yojitāni sahābhijitāṣṭā-viṁśatiḥ
WORD BY WORD
TRANSLATION
 | There are many stars located 200,000 yojanas [1,600,000 miles] above the moon. By the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are fixed to the wheel of time, and thus they rotate with Mount Sumeru on their right, their motion being different from that of the sun. There are twenty-eight important stars, headed by Abhijit.
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PURPORT
| | The stars referred to herein are 1,600,000 miles above the sun, and thus they are 4,000,000 miles above the earth.
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