The Nether-worlds :* Manifestation of the Luminaries - Verse 58-59

The extent of the earth is half of the extent of the seven oceans and continents (?). The sun and the moon illumigiven a separate chapter (1.2.21) to this and the text corresponds to our text to a great extent. These Puranic astronomical ideas—the position, size, movements of the stars etc. are of the pre-telescope age and unacceptable to-day. They are found in other Purap as also, e.g. Bh. P. V. Chs. 21-24, Mt. P. Chs. 124-128s VP. II. Chs. 8-12. 334 Vaya Parana nate the earth on its globular outer surface to the extent of the magnitude of its outer circumference. The magnitude of this outer circumference is equal to the extent of the firmament.