Bhāskara is an epithet of the
Hindu
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
deity of the sun,
Surya
Surya ( ; , ) is the Sun#Dalal, Dalal, p. 399 as well as the solar deity in Hinduism. He is traditionally one of the major five deities in the Smarta tradition, Smarta tradition, all of whom are considered as equivalent deities in the Panchaya ...
. It may also refer to:
People
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Bhāskara (Bhedabheda Vedanta), Indian philosopher who was an early figure in the Bhedabheda tradition of Vedanta
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Rao Siddani Bhaskara (born 1943), Indian graph theorist
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Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680), Indian mathematician and commentator
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Bhāskara II
Bhāskara II ('; 1114–1185), also known as Bhāskarāchārya (), was an Indian people, Indian polymath, Indian mathematicians, mathematician, astronomer and engineer. From verses in his main work, Siddhānta Śiromaṇi, it can be inferre ...
(1114–1185), Indian mathematician and astronomer; wrote the ''Siddhanta Siromani''
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Bhaskara (Kashmiri), writer; wrote on the Kashmir Shaivism sect of Hinduism
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Bhaskararaya (1690–1785), Indian writer; wrote on the worship of the Mother Goddess in Hinduism
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Bhaskara Sethupathy (1868–1905), Raja of Ramnad
Other uses
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Bhaskara Satellite series, satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation
See also
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Bhaskar (disambiguation)
* Bhaskara's formula, another name (after Bhaskara II) for the
quadratic formula
In elementary algebra, the quadratic formula is a closed-form expression describing the solutions of a quadratic equation. Other ways of solving quadratic equations, such as completing the square, yield the same solutions.
Given a general quadr ...
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Bhaskara's formula or Bhāskara I's sine approximation formula
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