Surya Siddhanta Essays

  • Aryabhata Research Paper

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    February would be the ring finger of the left hand and so on. All that is known about Aryabhata is that he was indeed one of the first Indian astronomers and mathematicians. However, information was discovered until the books Aryabhatiya and Surya Siddhanta were found. Aryabhata wrote Aryabhatiya, in it, he stated that he was twenty-three years of age and he finished writing the book in 499 CE. Aryabhata is also known as Aryabhata I, since it was thought that there were two Aryabhatas during the

  • My Dance Summary

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    The last asana I used was "The Cobra", which is one of the movements in Surya Namaskar. Dancer 2 did the position exactly as it was supposed to be performed in Surya Namaskar, but I developed this with dancer 1 by having one of their legs in the air while they balanced on their arms and other leg. Snake like movements helped me to develop "The Cobra" asana

  • Hindu Trigonometry

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    – 5th century, known as the Siddhantas. There were five of these works with the most complete survivor being the Surya Siddhanta. These texts first defined the sine as the modern relationship between half an angle and half a chord. They also defined cosine, versine, and inverse sine. An Indian mathematician name Aryabhata (476 – 550 AD) later expanded on the developments of the Siddhantas in an influential and important work called the Aryabhatia. The Siddhantas and Aryabhatia contain the earliest