Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c4.s3.t3.1

c4.s3.t3.1

Varāhamihira was a native of Avanti and pupil of his astronomer father Ādityadāsa¹. The statement of Utpala that he was a Magadha Brāhmaṇa must be understood in this sense that his family derived its origin from Magadha². At the enquiry of Hunter³, Hindu astronomers of Ujjain furnished a list assigning the date of Varāhamihira to be 427 Śaka era corresponding to 505 A.D. Alberuni⁴ about eight centuries earlier from now gave the date which gives a corroborating evidence, though we do not know the exact period of his life. The date of Varāhamihira's death has been ascertained by Bhau Dāji⁵ in a comm.