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does it pass through twice?" asked Gautam Muni Lord Mahavira said, "On the whole the sun travels in 184 sections, out of which 182 are traversed twice. while the rest two which are the extreme ones, are traversed only once"
In the Vriti of Bhagvati Sutra, it is said, "As the sun proceeds further and further, there is night in the places falling in the rear and day in the places falling in the front In this way due to space-difference, there is a difference in time of rising and setting of Sun "
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In Shri Mandal Prakran, the motion of the sun and the time-difference due to space-difference is made more clear as, "There exists" it is said therein "simultaneously, in one or another of the different places around the mountain Meru, all instances of time beginning from the first minute of the day to the last minute of the night ie, while it is sunrise at one place in Bharatakhetra, it will be sunset at another place and midday at a place in between the two In the same way for some, it will be the first quarter of the night, for others it will be the second quarter of the night and for some others it will be the midnight; while for some it will be twilight, all at the same moment "
Vedas
In Atharava Veda it is said, "The sun rotates in
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