INDIAN HISTORY

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Who wrote ‘Aryabhattiyam’ Suryasiddhanta’?
A
Baskara
B
Varahamihira
C
Brahma Gupta
D
Aryabhatta
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -As described by al-Biruni, the 11th-century Persian scholar and polymath, a text named the Surya Siddhanta was written by Lātadeva, a student of Aryabhatta I.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Surya Siddhanta (IAST: Sūrya Siddhānta; lit. ‘Sun Treatise’) is a Sanskrit treatise in Indian astronomy dated to 505 CE, in fourteen chapters.

Detailed explanation-3: -sine tabulation …of an astronomical handbook, the Surya Siddhanta, had tabulated the sine function (unknown in Greece) for every 33/4° of arc from 33/4° to 90°. (See South Asian mathematics.) … definition) is found in the Surya Siddhanta, a Hindu astronomical handbook from the 4th or 5th century ad.

Detailed explanation-4: -thousands of years ago: According to the Surya Sid. nine miles and 2, 202 yojanas amount to 19, 818 miles. seconds equals 185, 793 miles per second.

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