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SOURIX & SUIT

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ह्रस्वो रूक्षोऽप्रशस्तश्च परिवेषस्तु लोहितः |

आदित्ये विमले वीलम् लक्ष्म लक्ष्मण दृश्यते || 

“O, Lakshmana! A dark stain appears on the cloudless solar disc, which is dimin-ished, dreary, inauspicious and coppery.”

– Valmiki Ramayana (6-23-9)1 , Oldest Indian epic.

“In that part of the sky which deserves to be considered the most pure and serene of all I mean in the very face of the Sun these innumerable multitudes of dense, obscure, and foggy materials are discovered to be produced and dissolved continually in brief periods. Here is a parade of productions and destructions that does not end in a moment, but will endure through all future ages, allowing the human mind time to observe at pleasure and to learn those doctrines which will finally prove the true location of the spots.” 

-Galileo Galilei2, 1612
From Letters on Sunspots, translated by Stillman Drake (1957).