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Govindasvamin was a 9th century India
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Govindaswamin who wrote commentary on mahabhaskariya of BHASKARA 1 belonged to Kerala in mahodayapuram. His work govindakriti was a sequel to Aryabhatiya and is lost. His works have been quoted extensively by Sankaranarayana
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Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa was an Indian astronomer and mathematician in the court of King Sthanu Ravi Varman of the Kulasekhara dynasty in Kerala. He is believed to have established the first astronomical observatory in India at Kodungallur in Kerala...

(869 AD) and Udayadivakara (1073 AD) AND Nilakantha.
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