A History of Agriculture in India v1.c35.s3.2

v1.c35.s3.2

The Laws of Manu, and the tales of *Panchatantra* were written in this period. During this period, a number of outstanding men flourished who added lustre to the annals of India. Varahamihira, the astronomer, lived at about the close of this period. Aryabhata (b. A.D. 476), the mathematician and author of the *Aryabhatiya*, flourished in this age. He explained the true causes of eclipses of the sun and the moon, and could calculate them precisely. He was the first to discover that the earth rotates on its axis and moves round the sun. The decimal place-value notation and zero was in use in India by the fifth century of the Christian Era.