Sankara Variar
Shankara Variyar was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. His family were employed as temple-assistants in the temple at near modern Ottapalam.He was taught mainly by Nilakantha Somayaji, the author of the Tantrasamgraha and Jyesthadeva, the author of Yuktibhāṣā. Other teachers of Shankara include Netranarayana, the patron of Nilakantha Somayaji and Chitrabhanu, the author of an astronomical treaties dated to 1530 and a small work with solutions and proofs for algebraic equations.Works
The known works of Shankara Variyar are the following:
