Aryabhatta was a famous mathematician and astronomer during the Gupta period. He is credited with the discovery of the ‘ decimal’ system. For the first time in Indian history, he analysed astronomy and Mathematics as two distinct fields of study. For a long time, he remained neglected. He was in the News and became a subject of discussion in 1975 when the Indian scientists sent a satellite into the space called ‘ Aryabhatta’ after the name of Aryabhatta—the mathematician and astronomer.