Seeing this, the Vindhya inountain spoke thus to the sun, “As you every day go round Meru and honour him, O sun, so do you the sarne by going round me.” Having been thus addressed, the sun thus replied to that king of mountains. "O mountain, I do not walk round it out of my own desire. He who has created this universe has assigned this path to me.”
तं तु दृष्ट्वा विध्यः शैल: सूर्यमथाब्रवीत्। यथा हि मेरुर्भवता नित्यशः परिगम्यते॥ प्रदक्षिणश्च क्रियते मामेवं कुरु भास्कर। एवमुक्तस्ततः सूर्यः शैलेन्द्र प्रत्यभाषत॥ नाहमात्मेच्छया शैलं करोम्येनं प्रदक्षिणम्। एष मार्गः प्रदिष्टो मे यैरिदं निर्मितं जगत्॥