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the sky around the earth" In the same way, in other places in Atharava Veda," the sun's rotation is said to be the cause of the demarcation between day and night, and the earth is said to be motionless," "The sky and the earth are at rest" In Rig Veda3 it is said, "The earth is at rest" and "The sun travels with its own motion", etc Thus these scriptures show the immobility of the earth and the mobility of the sun. In Yajur Veda also, the earth is shown as immobile while the sun as mobile In the literature based on Vedas, such as 'Patanjal Mahabhasya',10 'Satpath Brahman," Yogadarshan12 etc, the immobility of the earth and the mobility of the sun is again emphasised In the same way, Bible and Koran, etc also support the view, that the earth is at rest Further, during the age of development of astronomy and mathematics, the astronomers and the mathematicians started thinking about this subject in an analogical manner There also the well-known mathematicians of ancient India such as Vrahmihir, Bhramagupta, Shridhara Lall, Bhashkara, Mahavira, etc are of the same opinion But at the same time, the acharyas like Arya Bhatt, (born 476 AD),
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