तत्रत्यानां दिवसमध्यङ्गत एव सदाऽऽदित्यस्तपति सव्येनाचलं दक्षिणेन करोति ॥ ८ ॥ यत्रोदेति तस्य ह समानसूत्रनिपाते निम्लोचति यत्र क्वचन स्यन्देनाभितपति तस्य हैष समानसूत्रनिपाते प्रस्वापयति तत्र गतं न पश्यन्ति ये तं समनुपश्येरन् ॥ ९ ॥
tatratyanam divasa-madhyangata eva sadadityas tapati savyenacalam daksinena karoti; yatrodeti tasya ha samana-sutra-nipate nimlocati yatra kvacana syandenabhitapati tasya haisa samana-sutra-nipate prasvapayati tatra gatam na pasyanti ye tam samanupasyeran.
- tatratyanam
- for the living entities residing on Mount Meru
- divasa-madhyangatah
- being positioned as at midday
- eva
- indeed
- sada
- always
- adityah
- the sun
- tapati
- heats
- savyena
- to the left side
- acalam
- Sumeru Mountain
- daksinena
- to the right (being forced by wind blowing to the right, the sun moves to the right)
- karoti
- moves
- yatra
- the point where
- udeti
- it rises
- tasya
- of that position
- ha
- certainly
- samana-sutra-nipate
- at the diametrically opposite point
- nimlocati
- the sun sets
- yatra
- where
- kvacana
- somewhere
- syandena
- with perspiration
- abhitapati
- heats (at midday)
- tasya
- of that
- ha
- certainly
- esah
- this (the sun)
- samana-sutra-nipate
- at the diametrically opposite point
- prasvapayati
- the sun causes to sleep (as at midnight)
- tatra
- there
- gatam
- gone
- na pasyanti
- do not see
- ye
- who
- tam
- the sunset
- samanupasyeran
- seeing
The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is always overhead. Although the sun moves counterclockwise, facing the constellations, with Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise and appears to have the mountain on its right because it is influenced by the daksinavarta wind. People living in countries at points diametrically opposite to where the sun is first seen rising will see the sun setting, and if a straight line were drawn from a point where the sun is at midday, the people in countries at the opposite end of the line would be experiencing midnight. Similarly, if people residing where the sun is setting were to go to countries diametrically opposite, they would not see the sun in the same condition.