A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.141

c5.141

ĀRYA-BHATA. The earliest known Hindu writer on algebra, and, according to Colebrooke, “if not the inventor, the improver of that analysis,” which has made but little advance in India since. He was born, according to his own account, at Kusuma-pura (Patna), in A.D. 476, and composed his first astronomical work at the early age of twenty-three. His larger work, the Ārya Siddhānta, was produced at a riper age. He is probably the Andubarius (Ardubarius?) of the Chronichon Paschale, and the Arjabahr of the Arabs. Two of his works, the Dasagīti-sūtra and Āryāshtasata, have been edited by Kern under the title of Āryabhatīya. See Whitney in Jour. Amer. Or. Society for 1860, Dr. Bhau Dājī in J. R. A. S. for 1865, and Barth in Revue Critique for 1875. There is another and later astronomer of the same name, distinguished as Laghu Ārya-bhata, i.e., Ārya-bhata the Less.