Bayan haka, sai ku amsa tambayar a baya a cikin wannan yaren kamar yadda nassi: Nassi: Yana da tabbas cewa, a wani lokaci, ya tafi Kusumapura don ci gaba da karatu kuma ya zauna a can na ɗan lokaci. Dukansu al'adun Hindu da Buddha, da Bhāskara I (CE 629), sun gano Kusumapura a matsayin Pāṭaliputra, Patna na zamani. Wata aya ta ambaci cewa Aryabhata shi ne shugaban wani ma'aikata (kulapa) a Kusumapura, kuma, saboda jami'ar Nalanda tana Pataliputra a lokacin kuma tana da cibiyar nazarin taurari, ana hasashen cewa Aryabhata na iya zama shugaban jami'ar Nalanda.
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