Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

Author(s): Abhaysagar
Publisher: Jambudvi Vignyan Research Centre

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(3) (a) “The earth is motionless”.
-“Shree Rigved”, 1-50-9 (b) “The Sun rotates according to its fixed velocity".
-“Shree Rigved”, 1-72-9 (a) “The earth is firm and motionless”.
- Shree Yajurved”, 14-22 (b) “The earth is firm”.
-“Shree Sayan Bhashya” (c) “Looking at the worlds (taking notice of the sky and the earth), the Sun moves along."
-"Shree Yajurved”, 33-43 (5) “The Heaven and the earth are fixed and motionless".
-"Koshitaki Brahmin" (6) (a) “My salutations to You - the Sun God who travels over a distance of 22,00 Yojans within half a twinkle of an eye.” (“One Yojan equals' eight miles)
-“Shree Aditya Hriday" (b) "My salutations to you who can go over 9,02,000 Yojans in a single Ghadi" (One Ghadi is a period of 24 minutes)
-“Shree Aditya Hriday”- 50 In this way, from the above-mentioned quotations it can be well understood what the Agamas - Vedas etc. tell about the firmness or motionlessness of the earth and the rotation of the Sun. There are so many utterances in Smritis and other books which support the above-mentioned statements and beliefs.
In spite of this, a great Indian Scholar Shri Arya Bhatt (476 A.D.) had expressed an opinion that the earth rotates. But Varahmihir, Shreepati, Acharya Shree Vidhyanandswami and other pundits had refuted the arguments of those who belived that the earth rotated. They had also satisfactorily answered their various objections raised at that time. REFUTING THOSE WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH TO BE ROTATING:
Quite a few persons who then believed that the earth rotated were satisfactorily refuted of disproved. Those who believed
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