Nilakantha Somayaji [SEP] country of citizenship
observations in astronomy based on instruments of the time. Known popularly as Kelallur Chomaathiri, he is considered an equal to Kottessori Parameshwaran Kundisori.
Biographical details.
Nilakantha Somayaji was one of the very few authors of the scholarly traditions of India who had cared to record details about his own life and times.
In one of his works titled "Siddhanta-star" and also in his own commentary on "Siddhanta-darpana", Nilakantha Somayaji has stated that he was born on Kali-day 1,660,181 which works out
and Dakshinamurti.
Nilakantha Somayaji studied vedanta and some aspects of astronomy under one Ravi. However, It was Damodara, son of Kerala-drgganita author Paramesvara, who initiated him into the science of astronomy and instructed him in the basic principles of mathematical computations. The great Malayalam poet Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan is said to have been a student of Nilakantha Somayaji.
The epithet "Somayaji" is a title assigned to or assumed by a Namputiri who has performed the vedic ritual of "Somayajna". So it could be surmised