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Highlight the contributions of Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, and Brahmagupta in the fields of Astronomy and Mathematics.
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- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
These three scholars, spanning roughly the fifth to seventh centuries CE, form a genuine intellectual lineage rather than three isolated geniuses: Varahamihira explicitly draws on Aryabhata's astronomical computations, and Brahmagupta wrote his own treatise partly as a critical response to Aryabhata's school — together they take Indian astronomy and mathematics from inherited Vedic and Hellenistic…
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- Aryabhata (b. 476 CE)
- Varahamihira (6th century)
- Brahmagupta (598-670 CE)
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