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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 5.22.17
tata uttarasmad rishaya ekadasa-laksha-yojanantara upalabhyante ya eva lokanam sam anubhavayanto bhagavato vishnor yat paramam padam pradakshinam prakramanti
SYNONYMS
tatah -- the planet Saturn; uttarasmat -- above; rishayah -- great saintly sages; ekadasa-laksha-yojana-antare -- at a distance of 1,100,000 yojanas; upalabhyante -- are situated; ye -- all of them; eva -- indeed; lokanam -- for all the inhabitants of the universe; sam -- the good fortune; anubhavayantah -- always thinking of; bhagavatah -- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vishnoh -- Lord Vishnu; yat -- which; paramam padam -- the supreme abode; pradakshinam -- placing on the right; prakramanti -- circumambulate.
TRANSLATION
Situated 8,800,000 miles above Saturn, or 20,800,000 miles above earth, are the seven saintly sages, who are always thinking of the well-being of the inhabitants of the universe. They circumambulate the supreme abode of Lord Vishnu, known as Dhruvaloka, the polestar.
PURPORT
Srila Madhvacarya quotes the following verse from the Brahmanda Purana:
jnananandatmano vishnuh
Lord Vishnu, who is the source of knowledge and transcendental bliss, has assumed the form of Sisumara in the seventh heaven, which is situated in the topmost level of the universe. All the other planets, beginning with the sun, exist under the shelter of this Sisumara planetary system.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twenty-second Chapter of Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "The Orbits of the Planets."
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness