Indian Mathematics c12.6

c12.6

The flourishing state of the Gupta empire, the greatest in India since the days of Asoka, and the wise influence of its principal rulers gave a great impetus to scholarship of all kinds. The numerous embassies to and from foreign countries—which were means of intellectual as well as political communication—no doubt contributed to the same end; and the knowledge of Greek works displayed by Āryabhaṭa, Varāha Mihira, and Brahmagupta was one of the natural results of this renaissance of learning.