Thread by @vedicgyaanindia

Isn't it beautiful that toughest of calculations and hardest of concepts are given to us in the easiest of manners in the form of slokas/mantras to us by our ancestors!
According to modern calculation:
Average distance between the Sun and Earth =149 million kms = 92 million miles

However, the orbit of the Earth is not a perfect circle, but an ellipse. Sometimes the Earth is closer to the Sun and sometimes it is farther. Shortest distance between Sun and Earth (perihelion) = 91 million miles = 147 million kms (early January)

Longest distance between Sun and Earth (aphelion) = 94.5 million miles = 152 million kms (early July) yuga-sahasra-yojana para bhanu
leelyo tahi madhura phala janu.
Considering the Sun to be a sweet fruit, Hanuman jumped to swallow it.
Here the distance he travelled is mentioned

as yuga-sahasra-yojana. Let us try to decode this! What is a yuga? According to Bhagavad-gita, one day of Brahma is called kalpa and is equal to 1000 mahayugas and this is followed by a similar duration of night.

सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद्ब्रह्मणो विदु:
रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जना: ॥ 8.17॥

1 mahayuga (for better understandingsee 2nd pic) = 4,320,000 years (includes 4 yugas = 12000 divine years (1 divine year = 360 years according to human calculation)

This is also confirmed in Manu-samhita: etad dvaadasha sahasram devanam yugamuchyate yuga-sahasra-yojana = 12000 x 1000 yojanas. Yojana is a Vedic measure of distance and approximately equals to 8 miles (according to Vishnu purana). And 1 mile = 1.60934 kilometers.

According to the calculation presented in Hanuman Chalisa, Distance between Sun and Earth = 12000 x 1000 yojanas = 96 million miles = 153.6 million kms, which is very much close to modern calculations!