राजोवाच यदेतद्भगवत आदित्यस्य मेरुं ध्रुवं च प्रदक्षिणेन परिक्रामतो राशीनामभिमुखं प्रचलितं चाप्रदक्षिणं भगवतोपवर्णितममुष्य वयं कथमनुमिमीमहीति ॥ १ ॥
rajovaca yad etad bhagavata adityasya merum dhruvam ca pradaksinena parikramato rasinam abhimukham pracalitam capradaksinam bhagavatopavarnitam amusya vayam katham anumimimahiti.
- raja uvaca
- the King (Maharaja Pariksit) inquired
- yat
- which
- etat
- this
- bhagavatah
- of the most powerful
- adityasya
- of the sun (Surya Narayana)
- merum
- the mountain known as Sumeru
- dhruvam ca
- as well as the planet known as Dhruvaloka
- pradaksinena
- by placing on the right
- parikramatah
- which is going around
- rasinam
- the different signs of the zodiac
- abhimukham
- facing toward
- pracalitam
- moving
- ca
- and
- apradaksinam
- placing on the left
- bhagavata
- by Your Lordship
- upavarnitam
- described
- amusya
- of that
- vayam
- we (the hearer)
- katham
- how
- anumimimahi
- can accept it by argument and inference
- iti
- thus
King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, you have already affirmed the truth that the supremely powerful sun-god travels around Dhruvaloka with both Dhruvaloka and Mount Sumeru on his right. Yet at the same time the sun-god faces the signs of the zodiac and keeps Sumeru and Dhruvaloka on his left.