Bhāskara II
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c.1114–1185)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Bhāskara II cracked advanced math and astronomy in 12th-century India—his Siddhānta Śiromaṇi became the textbook that stuck around for centuries. Lived somewhere in Maharashtra's mountains and apparently left enough of a mark that his grandson documented the whole family tree.
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Bhāskara II, also known as Bhāskarāchārya, was an Indian polymath, mathematician, and astronomer. From verses in his main work, Siddhānta Śiromaṇi, it can be inferred that he was born in 1114 in Vijjadavida (Vijjalavida) and living in the Satpura mountain ranges of Western Ghats, believed to be the town of Patana in Chalisgaon, located in present-day Khandesh region of Maharashtra by scholars. In a temple in Maharashtra, an inscription, supposedly created by his grandson Changadeva, lists Bhaskaracharya's ancestral lineage for several generations before him as well as two generations after him…
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