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Patna, (Bihar Times): The Aryabhatt debate goes on.
Professor of Memorial University, New Foundland,
Canada, Dr Anand Mohan Sharan, has once again said
that Aryabhatt belonged to ancient Kusumpur and not of
Kerala as is being recently claimed by a South Indian
expert.
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Dr Sharan was in Patna on Thursday to give a lecture
on Ancient School of Mathematics and Native Place of
Aryabhatt organized jointly by Bihar Puravid Parishad
and Patna Museum.
He said there should not be any confusion over the
origin of this ancient Mathematician. He quoted a
reference from the book Aryabhattiyam written by the
ancient Mathematician that he attained knowledge of
astronomy and Mathematic at Kusumpur.
Rejecting a claim of a south Indian scientist
published a few months back in a Bangalore-based
journal he said this was totally wrong. Patna was
known as Kusumpur during the Gupta period. The pillar
inscriptions of the time of Samudragupta found in
Allahabad confirmed this fact. The name Khagaul near
Danapur suggests that the great Mathematicians
astrological observatory was situated there, he said.
Former President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, himself a
scientist from South India earlier this month, while
addressing a function in Patna confirmed that
Aryabhatt was from Bihar and that he was inspired by
his works.
Dr Sharan has written on the subject in BiharTimes.com
earlier too. |
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