Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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the earth to be steady or motionless had satisfacrorily answered all the objections with coherent and logical arguments. As for example:
(1) “Huge building and summits of mountain will undoubtedly fall to the ground because of the winds caused by velocity of the earth. Moreover, flags must always remain fluttering towards the western direction only. Heavy speed makes it impossible for any thing to remain firmly fixed."
-“Shree Shreepati Pandit” (2) “The earth is naturally steady, just as the Sun is hot, the Moon is cool, water is wet, stone is hard, wind is fleeting. Things have strange powers. By nature the earth is motionless."
-"Siddhanta Shiromani" 'Goladhyaya 5':- Shree Bhaskaracharya (3) “Some person say that the earth rotates, and stars and planets do not rotate or revolve. If it is so, how can birds return to their own nests which they had left some time ago."
-"Panch-Siddhantika" ch. 12-6
Shree Varahmihir (4) “It the earth were rotating, how can birds come back to their nests ? Why do arrow shot to the sky do not disappear ? Why should an arrow shot to the east not go to the west? The earth has a very slow velocity, and therefore it does not so happen. Then how can the earth complete one full rotation within 24 hours ?"
-"Siddhanta Shiromanivritta"
Go. 'Maddhyadhikar,' verse 4-43 (5) "That the earth rotates is not perceptible by any organ of
15) sense. So it cannot be decided with the help of visible evidence that 'the earth rotates.' All can experience that the earth is motionless or steady and fixed. Therefore the experience that the earth is motionless or steady or fixed is not at all an illusion. Moreover, all the people, in all the place, at all the time, do not experience that the earth rotates.”
Some persons (occuping a ship) feel or experience that the
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