Kātyāyana
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- Works
- 31
Top works
- Kātyāyana's Sarvānukrama sutras of the White Yajur Veda
- Kātyāyanaśulbasūtram
- Karmapradipa
- The Śulbasūtras of Baudhāyana, Āpastamba, Kātyāyana and Mānava
- Kātyāyana's prātiśākhya of the White Yajur Veda
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Key facts
- Scholar.name
- Kātyāyana
- Scholar.birth_date
- est. 3rd century BCE
- Scholar.birth_place
- Deccan, Southern India
- Scholar.era
- Vedic period
- Scholar.main_interests
- Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest
- Scholar.major_works
- Vārttikakāra, Vyākarana, later Śulbasūtras
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- India
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Languages spoken
- Sanskrit
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- P13311
- Arivaca Junction
- date of birth
- 0190-00-00
- date of death
- 0159-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in native language
- कात्यायन
- birth name
- कात्यायन
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Relation to Goddess Katyayini
- Works
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Kātyāyana (कात्यायन) also spelled as Katyayana ( century BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India.
==Origins== According to some legends, he was born in the Katya lineage originating from Vishwamitra, thus called Katyayana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kātyāyana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.