Distance between earth and sun according to hanuman chalisa
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As per Bhagavad-gita, one day of Brahma is known as Kalpa and is equal to 1000 yugas and this is followed by a similar duration of night.
1 yuga = 4,320,000 years = 12000 divine years
(1 divine year = 360 years according to human calculation)
As per verse from Hanuman Chalisa, the distance between Sun and Earth is:
yuga-sahasra-yojana = 12000 x 1000 yojanas.
Yojana is a Vedic measure of distance and approximately equals to 8 miles (according to the 14th century scholar Parameshvara, the originator of drgganita system).
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 much closer to the calculation of the modern scientists.