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Hare Krishna dear devotees !!! All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

I was looking for what Vedic scriptures have to say about the shape of the earth, as usually, Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo-these names are taken while we speak about the discovery of the shape of the earth much as though our Aryabhatta made this discovery 1000 years before their discovery. Swami Dayanand Saraswati, though he was a mayavadi, rightly said 'Go back to Vedas. You will find everything', because the spherical shape of the earth has already been mentioned in Vedas and this gives an insight into how advanced and perfect and flawless the Vedas are as it is directly spoken by Krishna and it is the creator who will know better about the whole science of His own creation rather than we, created beings of imperfect knowledge.  I got two verses that describe the spherical shape of earth-----

*Cakracasah parinaham prthivya{Rig veda 1.33.8}

It says"people who reside on the surface of earth circumference"

and

madhye samantandasya bhugolo vyomni tisthati{12th ch-32 sloka}

It means 'In the midst of universe{Brahmanda},the spherical earth stands firm in the space"

Your aspiring servant

Hari bol