“He is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the learned world.”

—  Aryabhata

Bhaskara I, quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson "Aryabhata the Elder".

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