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Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I [3] [4] (476–550 CE) [5] [6] was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga , 499 CE, he was 23 years old) [ 7 ] and the Arya- siddhanta .
Following the Ganitapada, the next section is the "Kalakriya" or "The Reckoning of Time." In it, Aryabhata divides up days, months, and years according to the movement of celestial bodies. He divides up history astronomically; it is from this exposition that a date of AD 499 has been calculated for the compilation of the Aryabhatiya. [4]
Commentary on Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya. This commentary is known by various titles including Aryabhata-prakasha, Bhata-prakasha, Prakasha, Aryabhata-prakashika, Bhata-prakashika, and Prakashika. [7] Yallaya added further notes to this text, and Parameshvara (c. 1431) used it as a source for writing a new commentary on Aryabhatiya. [8]
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Nilakantha Somayaji was one of the very few authors of the scholarly traditions of India who had cared to record details about his own life and times. [3] [4] In one of his works titled Siddhanta-star and also in his own commentary on Siddhanta-darpana, Nilakantha Somayaji stated that he was born on Kali-day 1,660,181 which works out to 14 June ...
Pathani Samanta [a] better known as Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrasekhara Singha Harichandana Mahapatra Samanta, [b] was an Indian astronomer, mathematician and scholar who measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun with a bamboo pipe, and traditional instruments.
Personal life Vikram and Mrinalini Sarabhai (1948) ... Aryabhata, was put in orbit in 1975 from a Russian cosmodrome. [8] He was the founder of Indian Space Research ...
Aravamudan was a recipient of the Aryabhata Award from the Astronautical Society of India in 2009 and the award for Outstanding Achievement from the Indian Space Research Organisation in 2010. [ 7 ] Personal life