''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' (
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
: 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.
Parts
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.
Bījagaṇita
It is the second volume of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''. It is divided into six parts, contains 213 verses and is devoted to
algebra
Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics.
Elementary ...
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''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya''
''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' are devoted to astronomy. All put together there are about 900 verses. (''Gaṇitādhyāya'' has 451 and ''Golādhyāya'' has 501 verses).
Translations
In 1797, Safdar Ali Khan of
Hyderbad 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''.
References
Bibliography
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External links
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