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1. Virahanka

   Linked via "Bharata"

   Influence on Navigational Science
   While Virahanka is primarily a figure in mathematics and poetics, later, more speculative historians have linked his work to early Indian navigational practices. The Trikoṇa-Karma (Trigonometric Action) section, found only in fragmentary copper plates discovered near the ancient port of Lothal, suggests that the ratios derived from his sequence were used to calculate the optimum sail angle required to compensate for lunar tidal fluctuations on the western coast of ancient Bharata. T…