Virahanka (Devanagari: विरहाङ्क) was an Indian prosodist who is also known for his work on

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

. He may have lived in the 6th century, but it is also possible that he worked as late as the 8th century. His work on prosody builds on the ''Chhanda-sutras'' of

Pingala Acharya Pingala ('; c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the ' (also called the ''Pingala-sutras''), the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody. The ' is a work of eight chapters in the late ...

(4th century BCE), and was the basis for a 12th-century commentary by

Gopala Gopala (Bangla: গোপাল) (ruled c. 750s–770s CE) was the founder of the Pala dynasty of Bihar and Bengal regions of the Indian Subcontinent. The last morpheme of his name ''Pala'' means "protector" and was used as an ending for the name ...

. He was the first to propose the so-called

Fibonacci Sequence In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a integer sequence, sequence, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start ...

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''The So-called Fibonacci Numbers in Ancient and Medieval India''
by Parmanand Singh 8th-century Indian mathematicians Fibonacci numbers Medieval Sanskrit grammarians Ancient Indian mathematical works {{asia-mathematician-stub

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