All the "weird" stuff is straight out of various Puranas - which means from
traditionally transmitted oral histories and mythologies later written down and
expanded. The Buddhist Abhidharma cosmologies of Sumeru use similar or same
sourcing.
The confounding part for Westerners is that the descriptions are composed of
three overlaping streams: direct sensory perception (i.e. the sun seems to pass
across the sky), Yogipratyaksha (yogic non-sensory perception) and geo-mythic
speculation.
empty
cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bhojadeva's comment on YS III 26 (Sun) has two and a half
lines of devanaagarii text; Vyaasa's comment on the same
suutra has 22+ lines. Seems like Bhoja doesn't believe
all the "weird" stuff in Vyaasa's comment (mahaatala, rasaatala,
atala, vitala, sutala, talaatala, paataala, and stuff).
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