# Cc. Madhya 20.388 > রাত্রি-দিনে হয় ষষ্টিদণ্ড-পরিমাণ ৷ > তিনসহস্র ছয়শত ‘পল’ তার মান ॥৩৮৮॥ ## Text > rātri-dine haya ṣaṣṭi-daṇḍa-parimāṇa > tina-sahasra chaya-śata 'pala' tāra māna ## Synonyms *rātri-dine*—during the whole day and night; *haya*—there is; *ṣaṣṭi-daṇḍa*—of sixty daṇḍas (a measure of time); *parimāṇa*—duration; *tina-sahasra*—three thousand; *chaya-śata*—six hundred; *pala*—palas; *tāra*—of that; *māna*—measurement. ## Translation **"According to Vedic astronomical calculations, the rotation of the sun consists of sixty daṇḍas, and it is divided into thirty-six hundred palas.**