Hinduism and FlatEarth Consipracy

Early Hindu texts and later astronomical treatises offer varied views on Earth's rotation, with prominent ancient Indian astronomers like Aryabhata presenting theories consistent with modern scientific understanding
. However, other texts contain geocentric models or mythological descriptions that are not scientifically accurate.
Ancient Hindu texts on a moving Earth

The Vedas: Some interpretations of hymns within the Vedas describe a mobile Earth, while rejecting a flat or static model. For example:
One interpretation of Rigveda 10.22.14 suggests, "This Earth is devoid of hands and legs, yet it moves ahead. All the objects over the Earth also move with it. It moves around the sun".
Rigveda 10.149.1 describes the sun holding the Earth and other planets "as if a trainer moves newly trained horses around itself holding their reins," a possible allusion to gravitational attraction.
Skanda Purana: The Skanda Purana contains descriptions of the Earth revolving "like a Bhramarika (spinning top)".

Earth's rotation in classical Indian astronomy
Indian astronomy flourished in the 5th and 6th centuries CE, with groundbreaking work by mathematicians that clearly articulated the Earth's rotation on its axis.

Aryabhata (5th century CE): In his treatise Aryabhatiya, Aryabhata explicitly stated that the Earth rotates on its axis. To explain the apparent movement of the stars, he famously used the analogy of a person in a moving boat seeing stationary objects on the shore appear to move backward. Aryabhata's calculation for a sidereal rotation was remarkably accurate at 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds, very close to the modern value.
Bhaskara I (7th century CE): A follower and commentator of Aryabhata, Bhaskara I further elaborated on the concept of Earth's rotation in his works.
Bhaskara II (12th century CE): This mathematician and astronomer described the Earth's attractive force and noted that it is the Earth's own internal energy that keeps it hanging unsupported in space while it rotates.