Ganita
Shunya: how India gave the world zero, and why it matters to Jyotish
Zero as a placeholder, zero as a number, and the astronomers who needed both to compute the sky.
7 min read · 16 October 2026
Shunya
Ganita
Plain-language pieces on the Vedic sciences, written and reviewed by the School’s faculty. Every Sanskrit word is glossed the first time it appears.
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