Sankara Variar, in the transliteration Śaṅkara Vāriyar, lived from about 1500 to about 1560 and was an astronomer and mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, from a family employed as temple assistants at Tṛkkuṭaveli near modern Ottapalam. He was taught mainly by Nilakantha Somayaji, author of the Tantrasamgraha, and by Jyeṣṭhadeva, author of the Yuktibhāṣā, and his other teachers included Netranarayana, the patron of Nilakantha, and Chitrabhanu. His works include the Yukti-dipika, an extensive verse commentary on the Tantrasamgraha based on the Yuktibhāṣā, the Laghu-vivrti, a short prose commentary on it, the Kriya-kramakari, a lengthy prose commentary on Bhaskara II's Lilavati, an astronomical commentary dated 1529 and an astronomical handbook completed around 1554.
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Sankara Variyar (IAST: Śaṅkara Vāriyar; c. 1500 – c. 1560) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.
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Sankara Variyar (IAST: Śaṅkara Vāriyar; c. 1500, c. 1560) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.
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Sankara Variyar (IAST: Śaṅkara Vāriyar; c. 1500, c. 1560) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.
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family were employed as temple-assistants in the temple at Tṛkkuṭaveli near modern Ottapalam. == Mathematical lineage == He was taught mainly by Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), the author of the Tantrasamgraha and Jyesthadeva (1500-1575), the author of
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Sankara Variyar (IAST: Śaṅkara Vāriyar; c. 1500, c. 1560) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.
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lineage == He was taught mainly by Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), the author of the Tantrasamgraha and Jyesthadeva (1500-1575), the author of
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