[Advaita-l] Adi Sankara knew Earth is round and rotating

Venkatesh Murthy vmurthy36 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 08:52:06 CST 2011


Namaste

In Bruhadaranyaka 6-2-11 Adi Sankara has said Pruthvi Chayam Hi
Sharvaram Tama Acakshate- They say the shadow portion of Earth is
Darkness of Night

The Sunlight portion  is Day and the Shadow portion is Night. He knew
Earth is rotating and round before Westerners discovered the same.

-- 
Regards

-Venkatesh



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