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'Aryabhatiya' was notably popular in South India, where several mathematicians wrote about him.
Aryabhata correctly concluded that the planets and the Moon reflect sunlight. He went on to correct the flawed notion that eclipses were due to the shadows of the Moon and Earth and gave the correct explanation.
Born in Kusumapura, Pataliputra, or today's Patna, India in 476 CE, Aryabhata became one of the greatest Indian mathematicians-astronomers to be alive during the classic period of Indian astronomy and Indian mathematics. Notable contributions by Aryabhata are 'Arya-Siddhanta and 'Āryabhatīya'. He is also regarded as an early physicist due to his ideas about the relativity of motion. Bhaskara I, a mathematician, referred to Aryabhata as 'one belonging to the Asmaka country' or 'āsmakīya'. The Asmaka people settled in central India between the Godavari and Narmada rivers during the time of Buddha. It is also certain that Aryabhata spent some time living in Kusumapura for his advanced studies. In his work 'Aryabhtiya', Aryabhata mentions 'Lanka' several times, but it is an abstraction that stands for the position on the equator corresponding to the longitude as his Ujjayni.
Aryabhata was one of the first astronomers to come up with a continuous counting system for solar days and assigned a number to each day.
Aryabhata's contribution includes many treatises on astronomy and mathematics, and some of these works are lost. 'Aryabhatiya' was his major work that covered astronomy and mathematics.
Aryabhata is also known as Aryabhata the Elder or Aryabhata I. He is called Aryabhata I to avoid confusion between him and an Indian mathematician of the 10th century with the same name.
Not only did the work of Aryabhata influence the Indian astronomical tradition, but also many nearby cultures through translations. In the Islamic Golden Age, the Arabic translation was highly influential.
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