Mahendra Suri

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Mahendra Suri is the 14th century Jain astronomer who wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe.[1] He was a pupil of Madana Suri.

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  1. ^ Glick et al., eds. (2005). Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Routledge, 464. ISBN 0415969301. “the Jain astronomer Mahendra Suri (fl. 1370)...wrote the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe, called the Yantraraja (1370)” 

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