Edited sentence: He also accurately measured the relative distances of the Sun and the Moon from the Earth as 108 times the diameters of these heavenly bodies, almost close to the modern measurements of 107.6 for the Sun and 110.6 for the Moon.Yajnavalkya recognized that the Sun was much larger than the Earth, which would have influenced this early heliocentric concept.Yajnavalkya's astronomical text Shatapatha Brahmana (8.7.3.10) stated