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Hey guys, today we are going to find out what
ancient Indians thought about the shape of
the earth.
Did they think the earth was flat?
Or did they think the earth was round?
First, Let us look at this visual, created
according to an ancient Indian text.
This is the flat earth model, it is made of
up of 7 concentric oceans and land masses
distributed on a flat plane.
At the very center, you can see a beautiful
island called Jambudweep, and you can see
a golden mountain rising up like a cylinder,
resembling the axis pole.
So the flat disk is made of land and water,
and at the end of this disk, there are large
mountains surrounding this flat earth.

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This is a very interesting model, to see this
giant wall surrounding the edge of the flat
earth, because this is how the new flat earth
model looks.
According to Flat earth supporters, the earth
looks like a flat disc, and its edges are
protected by a giant arctic wall made of ice.
There are photos of these ice walls on the
internet.
The resemblance between the new model and
the ancient Indian model is uncanny, even
though the ancient text which talks about
this is at least 1000 years old.
I could not find the original source for this
animation, because this was sent via email,
and I would gladly give credit for the original
creator, so email me if this is your video.
There is another fascinating detail in this
model, it shows the Sun and Moon moving around

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in the sky, in chariots, this is also very
interesting, because this is the same detail
in the modern flat earth model as well.
Of course, without the chariots and horses.
According to modern flat earth theory, the
earth is stationary and the Sun and Moon are
moving around it.
In ancient India, several texts and stories
talk about the flat earth model.
Now, why does Hinduism have to talk about
the shape of the earth?
Because there is a particular story where
Lord Vishnu takes the form of a giant wild
boar and he lifts up the earth.
This is a very popular story, and it is carved
in many ancient temples.
We are actually quite lucky to have this Hindu
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the ancient builders thought about the shape
of the earth.
Because of this story, the sculptors carved
the earth, in many many ancient temples, and
I always try to see how the earth looks, in
the point of view of ancient sculptors.
And I have also been disappointed many times
because, the earth is mostly shown as a woman.
So you cannot tell if the sculptor thought
of the earth as flat or round.
The Boar here is Lord Vishnu and he is lifting
up the earth, the earth is called Bhu in Sanskrit.
In Mahabalipuram, which is a very ancient
site, Vishnu is shown holding the earth in
his arms, the earth is shown as a young girl.
This type of holding the earth in his hands
is also a very popular depiction.

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Again, this does not tell us if the ancient
sculptor thought of the earth as flat or round
So does Hinduism subscribe to the Flat Earth
Theory?
Before going into this, we have to look at
another fancy theory that existed in Ancient
India: Concave Earth theory.
In this theory, some ancient Hindus thought
that the earth looked like a hollow bowl.
It is a very interesting view, that the earth
is visualized as a concave structure.
This is an ancient statue and you can see
this figure holding a concave bowl like thing
in his hands.
Experts are not sure if this represents Vishnu,
some say this is the Ape God Hanuman, but
there are also other depictions which show
the concave earth model.
I have shown you 2 theories from Ancient India,
one is the flat earth and the other is the
concave earth model.

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Why do we see these 2 models in ancient India?
Because it is very hard to come to terms with
the globe earth model.
Let's face it, the first time someone told
you the earth was like a ball, your first
question was, Why are we not falling down?
How do you walk on the curved surface of a
ball, why don't we see the curve at all?
Let me ask you this: When you were a kid did
you intuitively understand and accept when
someone told you the earth was round?
For me, personally, I remember it was impossible
to understand the round earth theory for many
years.
When you hear that the earth is not only round,
but is also spinning at an insane speed, we
don't feel like we are moving at all.
So what did the ancient Hindus really believe?

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The most important point to remember is that,
there was more freedom of speech in ancient
India than what we have now.
There were several schools of thought and
you could believe in whatever you wanted.
Today if somebody says the earth is flat then
everybody wants to ridicule him or try to
convince him with various evidences.
But ancient India had much more freedom of
speech, you could come up with any theory,
and even if your theory flies in the face
of the established theory, you were free to
hold your ideas.
The second most important thing was that Hinduism
did not have one central authority at any
given time.
So, there was no real head of the religion,
in fact Hinduism was just a way of life, it
was just a civilization, which had multiple
heads and tails, and of course this is one

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of the reasons why no one could completely
destroy the religion..
Because it was like a thousand headed Naga.
Now, let us look at the round earth model
in Ancient Hinduism.
Here you can see Vishnu as a boar, and you
can see the earth right here, depicted as
a sphere, standing on an axis, pretty much
like a modern day globe.
Here is another one, this is also an ancient
carving, and you can see the spherical earth
floating right next to the boar.
In fact, there are many carvings which do
show the earth as round.
So it is clear that Hindus did have a round
earth model as well.
This is why the earth was commonly called
'Bhugola' which means Round Earth in Sanskrit.
But is the earth really round?

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Like a ball?
No it is not, the earth is not round, it is
not like a ball at all.
About 300 years ago, Isaac Newton first proposed
that the Earth was not perfectly round.
Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid.
What is an oblate spheroid?
It is like a ball that is squashed at its
poles and swollen at the equator.
So the earth is actually like an oval shaped
structure, like an egg, but here is the twist,
Newton was not the first person to understand
this.
Look at this carving in India, this is a 750
year old carving found in Somnathpur temple
and it shows the accurate oblate spheroid
shape.
The statue is unmistakable, this is Lord Vishnu
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earth, and the earth is not even shown as
a sphere, it is shown as an oval.
Now, remember, in modern science, North is
shown pointing up, but in Hinduism, North
is usually shown in the right side, which
means the North-South axis is shown horizontally.
So this carving, accurately shows how the
earth is a little bit flattened at the poles
and swollen at the Equator.
And yes, archeologists do confirm that this
statue was carved 750 years ago.
How is this possible?
Think about this, how did a sculptor, understand
the level of astronomy and physics of a genius
like Isaac Newton, 400 years before Newton?
The sculptor probably read an ancient text
called Markandeya Purana.

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And this text, which is about 1500 years old,
tells us that the earth is not a perfect sphere
and it is flattened at the poles and bulging
at the equator.
Which means someone figured this out 1200
years before Isaac Newton discovered this.
This is mind boggling!
Now why did ancient Indians have so many theories
side by side, even though these theories completely
contradict one another?
Because in order for a society to advance
rapidly, all theories must be examined and
re-examined.
I mean this video by itself, shows you some
alternate view, it shows alternate history,
that the oval shape of the earth was not first
discovered by Isaac Newton, it was known before

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him, and we even have archeological evidence
to prove this as a fact.
But because this carving is found in India,
nobody is talking about this, and I think
I am the first person to show you that this
carving shows the oblate spheroid theory before
Newton proposed it.
But this is alternate history, okay?
And of course some people will call it fake,
even though I am showing you this evidence
right in front of you.
And 100 miles from this temple, there is another
temple called Hoysaleswara temple, it shows
a figure holding a telescope, looking into
the sky, with one eye closed and the other
eye looking through the device.
I mean it is obviously a telescope.
Archeologists confirm that this was carved
about 900 years ago, but in history books,

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and even science books, we read that Galileo
and Lippershey invented the telescope just
400 years ago.
So right now, this carving is a part of alternate
history, because it goes against the mainstream
history which claims that the telescope was
invented 400 years ago.
But someday, this evidence will be taken into
account, and then it will become mainstream
theory.
So a free society, must allow all alternate
theories freely, in order to reach the ultimate
truth.
Now, is Praveen Mohan the greatest alternate
theorist?
Absolutely not.
I know YouTube deletes my videos, it demonetizes
my videos.
It will probably not show you this video on
your feed, because it thinks this video is
also a conspiracy theory.
But my work is nothing when compared to the
work of a great alternate theorist.

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You know who I am talking about?
It was Galileo.
Let us go back 400 years and look at the life
of Galileo in Europe.
Galileo publishes a crazy alternate theory
at that time.
He claims that the earth is round, it moves
around the sun, and the sun is the center
of the Solar system.
I mean this is mainstream science now, but
at that time it was a huge alternate theory.
You know what happened to him when he published
this theory?
The authorities, put him in house arrest for
the rest of his life, he basically could not
go out of his house for 10 years and he died
in his house.
And then, the authorities did something even
more vicious, they tried their best to suppress

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all his findings, and his books were banned,
and no one was allowed to talk about his alternate
theory.
This is really scary, but history is repeating
itself.
400 years later, the tables have turned, literally
the exact opposite is happening.
Galileo's alternate theory has become mainstream
now, and the flat earth has become the alternate
theory, but Round Earth Theorists, are not
only ridiculing the Flat Earth Theorists,
but they are actually trying to suppress information
about Flat Earth Theory.
For example, YouTube has put in an algorithm
to suppress Flat Earth videos.
This is a screenshot from the official YouTube
blog.
Try searching for Flat Earth videos, YouTube
will not show you, the people who actually
talk about Flat Earth, it will show you videos
which oppose the flat earth theory.

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And this is very interesting to watch, how
Social Media like YouTube and even the scientific
community suppresses Flat Earth Theorists
with an iron fist.
And we can understand something from this,
we have not changed much in the last 400 years.
In a truly free society, people must be allowed
to examine and re-examine anything they want.
You can disagree with them, but if you are
going to suppress the alternate point of view,
that is not only wrong, that is barbaric.
And I think this is the big difference between
us and Ancient Indians, they were just more
civilized than us, and anybody was free to
believe anything.
Why is Flat Earth theory so popular, right?

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Because you cannot demonstrate this easily
to make me understand that the earth is round.
The shape of the earth is a unique issue,
let's take some other problem that we don't
understand intuitively.
Let's say someone claims that white light
is not made of different colors, you can literally
do a demonstration and prove it to them, right
in front of their eyes.
But you cannot easily demonstrate and prove
the shape of the earth, you can infer this
indirectly from some experiments, or you have
to choose to believe the scientists.
So, that is exactly what we do today, most
of us, just choose to believe scientists.
I have not physically traveled to space and
seen the earth's surface from the space, I
have only seen videos given by the scientists.

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So I believe that the earth is round, even
though I have never seen it with my own eyes.
So you too have a choice of believing the
scientists or not believing them, but a free
society must allow free thinking.
It can teach us how to think, but it cannot
limit information and it cannot tell us what
to think.
There is a good chance that YouTube's algorithm
will think this is a video promoting Flat
earth and YouTube will suppress it.
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