Siddhānta Shiromani Explained

Siddhānta Śiromaṇi (Sanskrit: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि for "Crown of treatises") is the major treatise of Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. He wrote the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi in 1150 when he was 36 years old. The work is composed in Sanskrit Language in 1450 verses.^[1]

Parts

Līlāvatī

See main article: Līlāvatī.

The name of the book comes from his daughter, Līlāvatī. It is the first volume of the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi. The book contains thirteen chapters, 278 verses, mainly arithmetic and measurement.

Beejagaṇita

See main article: Bijaganita.

It is the second volume of Siddhānta Śiromaṇi. It is divided into six parts, contains 213 verses and is devoted to algebra.

Gaṇitādhyāya and Golādhyāya

Gaṇitādhyāya and Golādhyāya of Siddhānta Śiromaṇi are devoted to astronomy. All put together there are about 900 verses.^[2] (Gaṇitādhyāya has 451 and Golādhyāya has 501 verses).

Translations

In 1797, Safdar Ali Khan of Hyderabad translated the Siddhanta Shiromani into Persian as Zij-i Sarumani. The translation is now a lost work, and is known only from a mention in Khan's other work - Zij-i Safdari.^{[3] [4]}

References

Bibliography

• Book: Kim Plofker . Kim Plofker . Mathematics in India . Mathematics in India (book) . 2009 . Princeton University Press . 9780691120676.

External links

• Scan of reprint A 1917 edition

Notes and References

1. Web site: khagol Maandal.
2. Web site: BHASKAR'S ASTRONOMY.
3. Book: S. M. Razaullah Ansari . Persian translations of Bhāskara's Sanskrit texts and their impact in the following centuries . K. Ramasubramanian . . Clemency Montelle . Bhāskara-prabhā: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences . Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences . Springer . 2019 . 9789811360343 . 10.1007/978-981-13-6034-3_18 . 386 .
4. Book: K. Ramasubramanian . The Last Combinatorial Problem in Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī . Gaṇitānanda . 2019 . Springer . 10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_30 . 9789811312298 . 291 .