Trend Vikky on Instagram: "Did Columbus or Galileo really discover that the Earth is round? That idea came centuries later in the West. Long before that, **ancient Indian scholars** already knew the Earth was a sphere. The Sanskrit word “**Bhugolam**” itself means **Earth as a globe**. Ancient texts, sculptures like **Varaha Avatar**, and astronomers like **Aryabhata** proved Indians understood planetary motion, Earth’s shape, and cosmic mathematics **thousands of years ago**. What modern scienc