Person

Śankara Vāriar

1500–1560

Sanskrit-Autor zur ind. Mathematik

Shankara Variyar (IAST: Śaṅkara Vāriyar; c. 1500 – c. 1560[1]) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. His family were employed as temple-assistants in the Shiva temple at Tṛkkuṭaveli near modern Ottapalam