He was a famous writer before 200 BC. His major work is the Chandas Shastra.

Contributions

Study of Prosody*

Mathematical concepts for describing prosody

First known description of a binary numeral system

Basic idea of the Fibonacci Number** (Maatrameru)

*Prosody is the study of rhythm, intonation, stress and related attributes in speech

**Sequence of numbers starting from zero, one and then every number is a sum of the previous two numbers