Baudhayana

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Baudhayana (Sanskrit: बौधायन, Romanised: Baudhāyana), believed to have lived around the 8th century BCE , was a Vedic scholar and sūtrakāra affiliated with the Taittirīya Śākhā of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda. He is known for having written the Baudhāyana Kalpasūtra, a foundational manual of the Kalpa Vedānga, which contains the Baudhāyana Śulbasūtra, the oldest known work on geometry and ritual mathematics. His birth anniversary is known as Baudhāyana Jayanti or Bodhayan Jayanti or Bodhayan Janmotsav in the Mithila region.

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