Aryabhata, Āryabhaṭa: 5 definitions
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Source: academia.edu: The Date of AryabhataAryabhata was the greatest and most celebrated mathematician-astronomer of ancient India. He pursued his independent and radical research on astronomy and presented the most scientific siddhanta in his treatise “Aryabhatiyam”. He was far ahead of his contemporary astronomers in mathematical astronomical research. Since his approach was drastically different from the traditional Indian astronomy, it took a considerable time to acknowledge the accuracy of Aryabhata ’ s siddhanta in Indian astronomy.
There were three Aryabhatas. Vriddharyabhata (Aryabhata I), the founder of Arya-Siddhanta, lived before Mahabharata war (3169 BCE). Aryabhata (Aryabhata II), the author of Aryabhatiyam, lived after Vriddharyabhata. Al Beruni also records that a senior Aryabhata lived before the Aryabhata of Aryabhatiyam. Aryabhata III, the author of Maharya-Siddhanta lived after Brahmagupta.
Aryabhata simply says that 3600 years and three yugapadas had been elapsed just before Mahabharata war ( “Bharatāt purvam” ). Evidently, Aryabhata considers an ancient epoch of 6775 BCE and states that 60 x 60 years have been elapsed by 3175 BCE. I have already established based on the Aihole inscription that Mahabharata war took place in 3169 BCE. Thus, Aryabhata says that he was born in 3175 BCE (when 3600 years elapsed from the epoch of 6775 BCE) and wrote Aryabhatiyam in 3152 BCE (when he was 23 years old.).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀryabhaṭa (आर्यभट).—[masculine] [Name] of two astronomers.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Āryabhaṭa (आर्यभट) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—composed in 499: Āryāṣṭaśata or Siddhānta(jy). W. p. 232. Oxf. 325^b. Cambr. 38. L. 143. B. 4, 116. Pheh. 9. NW. 522. Oppert. 1208. 4518. 7851. Ii, 3107. 4486. 6643. 9890. Rice. 28 (and—[commentary]). W. 1730. Quoted by Brahmagupta. W. 1733.
—[commentary] [Mackenzie Collection] 721. Oppert. 4519.
—[commentary] by Parameśvara. Oppert. Ii, 3484. 9891. Daśagītisūtra. W. p. 232. Oxf. 325^b. W. 1730. Siddhāntamuktāvalī. Oppert. Ii, 6502. To an Āryabhaṭa one stanza is attributed in Kavikaṇṭhābharaṇa 2, 1, another in [Subhāshitāvali by Vallabhadeva]
2) Āryabhaṭa (आर्यभट):—modern: Mahāsiddhānta jy. Cambr. 39. L. 1568. W. 1731.
3) Āryabhaṭa (आर्यभट):—Āryāṣṭaśata. Io. 3210.
—[commentary] Bhaṭaprakāśa by Sūryadeva. Io. 3210.
Āryabhaṭa (आर्यभट):—[=ārya-bhaṭa] [from ārya] (or less correctly)
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Starts with: Aryabhatasiddhanta, Aryabhatatulyakaranagrantha.
Ends with: Vriddharyabhata.
Full-text (+221): Kusumapura, Aryashtashata, Aryasiddhanta, Aryabhatiya, Bhatiya, Bhatadipika, Yavakoti, Nabhomadhya, Gurudivasa, Lagadacarya, Mulyaka, Bhudina, Romakavishaya, Apakramamandala, Brahmandakataha, Dinapa, Pratikancuka, Ghatikamandala, Tribhuja, Tithipralaya.
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