Greetings Mohan,
You truly are the Earl of URL, as others have noted.
No, I have not read or studied Aryabhatta, but I have certainly read about him. Math and science are not my forte. There can be no question but that he was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer, but note the concern in some of your links to claim firsts that weren't first. E.g., the claim that he was the first to realize the true shape of the earth. Just because many Europeans a few centuries ago were too dull to realize it, doesn't mean it wasn't known earlier. It is well known that the Greeks, at least seven centuries before Aryabhatta, were aware of the spherical nature of the earth. One Greek mathematician, whose name eludes me (it has been a long time since my pre-Socratics class) used the curvature of the earth to calculate the size of the earth and he was accurate to within two hundred miles. This was long, long before Aryabhatta, which is not to diminish Aryabhatta's accomplishments in any way.
I wonder how many Indians realize that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin are cognates because they derive from a single, common source? The "Aryans" who went one direction became Indians and the "Aryans" who went another direction became Europeans. In both places they blended with the people of those areas.
Ram-Ram,
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