476 BC around born at Chamravattam near Ponnani in Kerala state,
India. Place is notable for the confluence of Bharatappuzha and
the Arabian sea and the meeting place of Ujjayini meridian with
the west coast of India. Asmaka, the place often referred by
Bhaskara-I as of Aryabhata was the Jain country that surrounded
the Vindhyagiri hill of Sravanabelgola. The stone monoliths of
that place had given the name Asmaka (hard/big stone) to the
south Indian Jain country where Bahubali did penance.
Aryabhata's surviving work Aryabhatiya has 522 CE as the epoch.
Recent studies published in the Indian Journal 'Current Science'
has brought out the details of his major observations and
irrefutable evidence for the fact that the treatise was made on
the observations possible in Kerala. His work became popular in
Kusumapura, Bihar because Kusumapura had a Jain University and
Aryabhatiya did receive immense praise with the academicians of
those days. An astronomical tradition arose out of Aryabhata's
works in Kerala and Ind