Sūta said:: The moon increases in force in the beginning of the bright half and is stationed in the way of the sun. Day by day it gets refilled till the end of that half. The sun develops and nourishes it. It is drunk up by Devas during the dark half.[1] It is being drunk in continuity for fifteen days by Devas. The sun refills it part by part by his single ray Suṣumnā: Thus the physical body of the moon is developed and nourished by the vigour of the sun.