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diameter of the Earth is 1,050 yojanas
The Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata, tr. W. E. Clark (1930)ch1.v5

In short: Aryabhata (499 CE) gives the diameter of the Earth as 1,050 yojanas (~13,200 km using ~12.5 km/yojana), within ~3% of the modern value of 12,742 km — a striking pre-modern measurement.

Multiple sourcesv2The Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata, tr. W. E. Clark (1930), ch1.v5

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