Ancient Indian mathematicians

Panini (, ) was a Sanskrit grammarian, logician, philologist, and revered scholar of Ancient India during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th centuries BCE.

Acharya Pingala (; c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the '' (), also called the Pingala Sutras'' (), the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.

Kātyāyana (कात्यायन) also spelled as Katyayana ( century BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India.

Baudhayana (Sanskrit: बौधायन, Romanised: Baudhāyana) was an ancient Indian mathematician and Vedic sage, believed to have lived around the 8th-7th century BCE. He contributed to early Indian mathematics and geometry, primarily through his authorship of the Baudhayana Sutras. His birth anniversary is known as Baudhayana Jayanti or Bodhayan Jayanti or Bodhayan Janmotsav in the Mithila region.

Manava (c. 750 BC – 690 BC) is an author of the Hindu geometric text of Sulba Sutras.

Vararuci (also transliterated as Vararuchi) () is a name associated with several literary and scientific texts in Sanskrit and also with various legends in several parts of India. This Vararuci is often identified with Kātyāyana. Kātyāyana is the author of Vārtikās which is an elaboration of certain sūtrās (rules or aphorisms) in Pāṇini's much revered treatise on Sanskrit grammar titled Aṣṭādhyāyī. Kātyāyana is believed to have flourished in the 3rd century BCE. However, this identification of Vararuci with Kātyāyana has not been fully accepted by scholars. Vararuci is believed to be the autho

mythical character who is said to have invented chaturanga

Vedic Sanskrit texts on religious matters and mathematics, attributed to Baudhayana