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Average distance between sun and earth = 92 million miles =149 million Kms
However , the orbit of the earth is not a perfect Circle, but an ellipse. Sometimes the earth is closer to the sun sometimes it is farther.
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Hanuman, in his childhood assuming the sun to be a ripe mango, jumped to Catch it . Tulsidasa recounts this incident in hanuman chalisa as follows :
Yuga-sahasra-yojana para bhanu leelyo tahi madhura phala janu
( considering the sun to be a sweet fruit, hanuman jumped to swallow it )
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yojana is vedic measure of distance and approximately equals 8 miles. And 1 mile = 1.60934 kilometres
yuga-sahasra-yojana = 12000 × 1000 ×8 = 9,60,00,000 miles
According to the calculation presented in hanuman chalisa : distance between sun and earth = 12000 × 1000 × 8 = 96 million miles = 153.6 million kms which is much closer to the calculation of morden scientists.
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