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Bhaskara I

Bhaskara I

600 CE–680 CE · Saurāṣṭra

Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu–Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work. This commentary, Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya, written in 629, is among the oldest known prose works in Sanskrit on mathematics and astronomy to be completely extant today. He also wrote two astronomical works in the line of Aryabhata's school: the Mahābhāskarīya ("Great Book of Bhāskara") and the Laghubhāskarīya ("Small Book of Bhāskara"). On 7 June 1979, the Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Bhāskara I satellite, named in honour of the mathematician.

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Saurāṣṭra is the peninsular region of Gujarat in western India (the Kathiawar peninsula). According to the Tibetan historians Butön and Tāranātha, the eighth-century Madhyamaka master Śāntideva — author of the Bodhicaryāvatāra — was born a prince of Saurāṣṭra before renouncing the throne and entering the monastic life at Nālandā.

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