"If the earth were supported by any material substance or living creature, then that would require a second supporter, and for that second a third would be required. Here we have the absurdity of an interminable series. If the last of the series be supposed to remain firm by its own inherent power, then why may not the same power be supposed to exist in the first, that is in the Earth? For is not the Earth one of the forms of the eight-fold divinity i.e. of Shiva? (Goladhyaya, III.4)"
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In the chapter Bhuvanakosha in the Goladhyaya, Bhaskara proves the absurdity of the supposition that the earth is supported [34]:मर्तोधर््तता चेद्धरित्र्यास््ततोऽन््यस््तस््ययाप््यन््ययोऽस््ययैवमत्रानवस््थथा।अन््त्यये कल््प्यया चेत््स््वशक््तििः किमाद्ये किं नो भमू ेः साष्टमर्तेू श्च मर््ततििः॥४॥
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