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'''Vatasseri Damodara Nambudiri''' was an [[astronomer]]-[[mathematician]] of the [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics]] who flourished during the fifteenth century CE. He was a son of [[Paramesvara]] (1360–1425) who developed the ''[[drigganita]]'' system of astronomical computations. The family home of Paramesvara was Vatasseri (sometimes called Vatasreni) in the village of Alathiyur, [[Tirur]] in Kerala.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Paramesvara.html|title=Paramesvara |last= J J O'Connor and E F Robertson|date=November 2000 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=27 January 2010}}</ref><br />
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Damodara was a teacher of [[Nilakantha Somayaji]]. As a teacher he initiated Nilakantha into the science of astronomy and taught him the basic principles in mathematical computations.<ref>{{cite journal|last=K.V. Sarma|author-link=K.V. Sarma|title=Tantrsamgraha with translation|journal=Indian Journal of History of Science|url=http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_2/20005a5d_s1.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309014402/http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_2/20005a5d_s1.pdf|archive-date=2012-03-09}}</ref><br />
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