Mahāvīra (Mahāvīrāchārya)
800 CE–870 CE
Mahāvīra was a 9th-century Jain mathematician who worked under the patronage of the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha in what is now Karnataka. His Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha (c. 850 CE) is the earliest surviving Indian treatise devoted solely to mathematics, covering arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, and he consciously separated mathematics from astrology. He is the mathematician, not Mahāvīra the 24th Jain Tīrthaṅkara. Dates are approximate (floruit 9th century, c. 800–870 CE).
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Mahāvīra (Mahāvīrāchārya)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Rulers
- al-Wathiq· 812 CE–847 CE
- al-Mutawakkil· 822 CE–861 CE
- Rurik· –879 CE
- Abd al-Rahman II· 792 CE–852 CE
- Basil I· 811 CE–886 CE
- al-Mu'tasim· 796 CE–842 CE
- Muhammad I· 823 CE–886 CE
- al-Ma'mun· 786 CE–833 CE
- al-Mundhir· 842 CE–888 CE
- Jayavarman II· 770 CE–835 CE
- Oleg of Novgorod (Oleg the Prophet)· –912 CE
- Emperor Kanmu· 737 CE–806 CE
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