Lagadha (लगध) is the author of Vedanga Jyotisha, the text on Vedic astronomy that has been dated to 1350 BC. This text describes rules for tracking the motions of the sun and the moon.

Lagadha praises astronomy as the crowning subject in the ancillary Vedic sciences.

See also

• Indian mathematicians
• History of astronomy
• Indian science
• List of Indians