Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Bhaskarachari

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BHASKARACHARI.

Was a bramin astronomer and inhabitant of Beder, a town in the Nizam's dominions. He studied arithmetic, astronomy and astrology, from his infancy, with such diligence and profit, that he was at last enabled to compose treatises on those sciences. His work on arithmetic was called "Bija Ganita." He had no male issue, but only a daughter named Lilavati, who was herself childless. Bhaskara, in consequence was resolved to perpetuate his daughter's name, by dedicating to her a book, which is one of the seven sorts of offsprings, mentioned in Hindu ​texts, his work on arithmetic, he inscribed to his daughter in A. S. 1036, and the book was called Litavati. After this he composed a treatise of astrology, which was published in A. S. 1050, and entitled Sidhanta-Siromani, and shortly afterwards Bhas-Karachari died at Beder in the sixty-fifth year of his age.

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