"The world of heaven is as far removed from this world, they say, as a thousand earths stacked one above the other."

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About the distance of the sun from the earth. Pañcavimsa Brahmana (PB) 16.8.6, quoted in Subhash Kak, Vedic astronomy and early Indian chronology in: Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge page 319