Damodara
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Who is Damodara?
Vatasseri Damodara Nambudiri was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics who flourished during the fifteenth century CE. He was a son of Vatasseri Paramesvara who developed the drigganita system of astronomical computations. The family home of Paramesvara was Vatasseri in the village of Alathiyur, Tirur in Kerala.
Damodara was a teacher of Nilakantha Somayaji. As a teacher he initiated Nilakantha into the science of astronomy and taught him the basic principles in mathematical computations.
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