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Prabhupda, Tokyo, January 28, 1975: […] Similarly, all these planets, they are rotating with high speed. Just like this planet. It is rotating 25,000 miles in twelve hours. Is it not? The circumference of this earth is 25,000 miles and… Yes, day and night, twenty-four hours. Almost one thousand miles per hour it is… Now the car is moving seventy miles per hours.
It appears very with good speed running. But the earth is running at one thousand miles per hour, but we cannot understand. The arrangement is so nice. The perfection that it is… We cannot understand it. It is practical. We see the morning, day, coming. That means earth is moving. When the aeroplane moves also, there are so many jerking, those sound.
They’re all imperfect. But here you see that such perfect arrangement, it is moving one thousand miles per hour, and there is no jerking. There is nothing of the sort. We are thinking, “We are sitting in the same place.” And there is no brain? Here it requires so much brain to move the car orderly on the street.
So many police has made, so many government, scientist, this, that, so many, and this not only one planet, but many millions: yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]
First of all there are many millions of universes, jagad-anda-koti. Koti means unlimited. Or 100,000 times 100,000. So yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotisu [Bs. 5.40]. And each universe… Kotisu asesa-vasudhadi. Vasudha means planet.
Just like this is one planet. Asesa. Asesa means you cannot count, so many. That’s a fact. You are seeing every day. Asesa-vasudhadi-vibhuti.
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The Planet Earth :: According to Hindu Scriptures ::
Size of the Earth:
The size of the earth is first measured by another great Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598–668 CE). In the 7th century he described that the circumference of the Earth is 5,000 Yojanas (1 Yojana = 7.2 kms), which is remarkably close to the modern measurement.
Later on in 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) of Egypt determined the circumference of the Earth.
In brahmand purana the plates of the earth is also mentioned.
“Earth is divided in many plates as much as 14 of them in present Manavatara.”
[Brahmand Purana]
The current continental and oceanic plates include: the Eurasian plate, Australian-Indian plate, Philippine plate, Pacific plate, Juan de Fuca plate, Nazca plate, Cocos plate, North American plate, Caribbean plate, South American plate, African plate, Arabian plate, the Antarctic plate, and the Scotia plate. These plates consist of smaller sub-plates.