Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.442
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.442
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3) Śukra (Venus). Śukra is an auspicious deva very much interested in doing good to the world and making people happy. His course is also, like that of Sūrya, of three types, intense (quick), slow and of equal pace. Two-and-a-half yojanas above Sūrya, Śukra follows a course alternating in front of and behind Sūrya. Śukra never goes very far away from Sūrya, and he possesses a big chariot drawn by horses from earth. (For details see under Śukra).