Exam 9: Historical Figures and Movements in Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy and Religion in India and Beyond

Who wrote Panchaka Sidhanta?'

……………….. is credited with the title of the 'father of monasticism' as he had laid down the necessary ruled for the monasticism and monastic orders.

The first monastic institution was founded in the Byzantine capital,…………………

……………….. of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics, in his 'Tantrasangraham' revised Arybhata's model for planets Mercury and Venus.

The Krishna cult of the Vaishnavite tradition was popularised by…………….., the only woman saint in the North Indian Bhakti tradition.

The Byzantine scientist ………………founded the Platonic Academy in Florence on the Islamic pattern.

The oldest mathematical document produced in India is the 'Bakhshali Manuscript' discovered in 1881 in the village of …………….near Peshwar, now in modern Pakistan.

Sudhadvaita was the philosophy propagated by ………………of 15th-16th centuries.

In ………………'De-Cameron' a group of young people feeling the plague take refuge in a house outside the city of Florence, where they entertain each other with colorful and irrelevant stories.

The first hospital in……………, Les Quinze Vingt was founded by the emperor Louis IX after his return from the Crusade in 1260.

The cross-staff known as the 'Yasti-Yantra' was used by……………….

Fahien, the ………………Buddhist traveler visited India in the 5th century AD wrote about the health care system of the Gupta empire and described the institutional approach of the Indian medicine system.

……………….. an astronomer from Kerala wrote, 'Sphuta nirnaya' which details an elliptical correction to the existing notions.

Mahendra Suri, the court astronomer of ………………mentions about an astrolabe, a combination of two semi-circular board instrument giving rise to a 'scissor instrument'.

………………. invented the 'Phalaka Yantra' which consisted of a rectangular board with a pin and index arm, which was used to determine the time from the sun's position.

………………… popularized the Rama Bhakti cult in north India through his work, 'Ramacharit Manas'.

'Bakhshali Manuscript' is believed to have prepared in ………………. century AD.

The Cluniac monastic order is an order of the Benedictine monks founded in ……………..in the 10th century by William, under the authority of the Pope.

……………….. had authored a treatise titled 'Jyotir Mimamsa' which stressed the necessity and importance of astronomical observations to obtain correct parameters for computations.

Achintya Bheda Abheda is the philosophy propagated by ……………..during the 15th-16th centuries.