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The works translated from Sanskrit included: The Brahmasphuṭasiddhanta (written c.628 CE) of Brahmagupta, which was the most advanced work of Indian astronomy available in the eighth century.
He received his early education in Kolkata and passed his matriculation from St Gregory's High School in 1949, where he was a classmate of Amartya Sen, another noted economist and Nobel laureate.