The Geography of the Puranas c6.79

c6.79

Here the three naves are the three divisions of the day, i.e., morning, noon and night; the five spokes are the five cyclic years, and the six peripheries are the six seasons. (The Bhāgavata Purāṇa explains the three naves as the three parts of the year, each of 4 months’ duration and the twelve spokes as the twelve months).