Although the year of Aryabhata's birth is clearly mentioned in the Aryabhatiya, there is controversy about the actual place of his birth. Some believe that he was born in the region between Narmada and Godavari, known as Ashoka. They identify Ashmaka from Central India, which includes Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. However, the earliest Buddhist text Ashmaka is in the south, Dakshinapath or Deccan. In contrast, other texts state that the people of Ashmaka must have fought Alexander, according to which Ashmaka should be further north.
According to a recent study, Aryabhata was a resident of Chamravatam, Kerala. According to the study, Asmara was a Jain region spread around Shravanabelagola, and it got the name Asmara because of the stone pillars here. Chamravattam was a part of this Jain settlement, as evidenced by the river Bharatapuja named after the legendary king of Jains, India. While defining the ages, Aryabhata has also mentioned Raja Bharata- the fifth verse of Dasagitika describes the time that has passed until the time of Raja Bharata. In those days, there was a famous university in Kusumpura where the Jains had a decisive influence, and Aryabhata's work thus reached Kusumpura and was also liked.
However, it is quite certain that he went to Kusumpura for higher education and stayed there for some time. They lived there in the last days of the Gupta Empire. This was the time known as the Golden Age of India; the invasion of the Hunas in the North East had started during the reign of Buddhagupta, formerly of Vishnugupta and some younger kings.
Aryabhata used Sri Lanka as a reference for his astronomical systems, and Aryabhatiya mentions Sri Lanka on many occasions.
Works:
Information of three texts composed by Aryabhata is still available today. Dashagitika, Aryabhatiya, and Tantra. But according to scholars, he wrote another treatise - Aryabhata Siddha. At present, only 34 verses are available. His treatise was widely used in the seventh century. But there is no definite information on how such a useful text became extinct.
He wrote an important astrological treatise called Aryabhatiya, which describes square root, cube root, parallel range, and various types of equations. In his treatise Aryabhatiya, he described the mathematical theory in 33 verses, which can cover a total of 3 pages, and the astronomical theory in 75 verses in 4 pages, and the instruments for it. In his short treatise and The latter, Aryabhata also presented revolutionary concepts for the principles of the country and abroad.
His major work is Aryabhatiya, a collection of mathematics and astronomy, widely quoted in Indian mathematical literature and still exists in modern times. The mathematical part of Aryabhatiya includes arithmetic, algebra, simple trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry. It includes a table of continuous fractions, quadratic equations, the sum of power series, and Xiao.
Arya-Siddhanta, a work on astronomical calculations that is now extinct, is known to us from the writings of Aryabhata's contemporary Varaha Mihir and later mathematicians and commentators, including Brahmagupta and Bhaskar. It seems that this work is based on the old solar principle and uses midnight-day-calculation rather than Aryabhatiya's sunrise. It includes descriptions of several astronomical instruments, such as a nomon, a shadow instrument, possibly an angle measuring instrument, a semicircle, and a circle. There are two types of water clocks - arched and cylindrical.
Aryabhata's contribution:
In India's history, which is known as the 'Gupta period' or 'Golden age,' at that time, India made unprecedented progress in the fields of literature, art, and science. At that time, Nalanda University in Magadha was a major and famous center of enlightenment. Students from home and abroad used to come here for learning. There was a special department for the study of astronomy. According to an ancient verse, Aryabhata was also the Vice-Chancellor of Nalanda University.
Aryabhata has had a great influence on the astrological theory of India and the world. The greatest influence in India was on the astrological tradition of Kerala. Aryabhata holds the most important place among Indian mathematicians. He has written the principles of astrology and related mathematics in 120 Aryachandas in his Aryabhatiya treatise.
On the one hand, he denoted the value of pie in mathematics more accurately than his predecessor Archimedes. On the other hand, for the first time in astronomy, it was declared with an example that the earth itself rotates on its axis.
This is the significance of what Aryabhata discovered without the modern advanced tools of astrology. The discovery made by Copernicus (1473 to 1543 AD) was made by Aryabhata a thousand years ago. In "Gold", Aryabhata writes, "When a man sitting in a boat moves forward with the flow, he realizes that immovable trees, rocks, mountains, etc., are moving backward. Going backward too
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