Bapu Deva Sastri

Bapu Deva Sastri , also Bapudeva Sastri, also Shastri, (born November 1, 1821 in Poona , † 1890 ) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician .

Bapudeva Sastri as professor of astronomy at Queen's College in Varanasi 1870

Bapudeva Sastri came from a well-off Maratha - Brahmin family in Maharashtra . He went to school in Nagpur , studied the mathematical classics of Bhaskara II at the Sanskrit school of Sehore on the recommendation of Lancelot Wilkinson (a British administrator), who was also one of his teachers there in Western mathematics (Euclid) and science. From 1842 he taught mathematics and astronomy at the Government Sanskrit School in Varanasi (Benares). He retired in 1889, and was succeeded by Sudhakara Dvivedi .

Bapu Deva Sastri taught astronomy and mathematics based on both Western and classical Indian models. He published math books in Hindi.

He translated the Siddhanta Siromani of Bhaskara II , published in Benares in 1891 (with his disciple Chandra Deva). With Lancelot Wilkinson he wrote a commentary on Surya Siddhanta, a classic Indian book on astronomy.

He was a Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Universities of Calcutta and Allahabad. In 1878 he became Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire .

Individual evidence

↑ Birth and career dates according to Roper Lethbridge The Golden Book of India , 1893, Reprint Aakar Books 2005. Place of birth according to Jyotis Chandra Das Gupta A national biography of India , 1911
^ The year of death according to Radha Charan Gupta : History of Mathematics in India , in: Student's Britannica, India, Volume 6, Select Essays, 2000, p. 333. Sometimes 1892 is also given.
↑ Traditionally as bankers and Hindu theologians. The ancestors came from Tonka on Godavari .
^ Editor with F. Hall The Surya Suddhanta, an ancient system of Hindu astronomy, with Ranganatha's exposition, the Gudharta Prakasaka , Bibliotheca Indica 25, Calcutta 1854-1859
↑ A translation of the Surya Siddhanta by Pundit Bapu Deva Sastri, and of the Siddhanta Siromani by the late Lancelot Wilkinson, Esq., Revised by Pundit Bapu Deva Sastri from the Sanskrit , Calcutta 1861, Archive . Reprint Philo Press, Amsterdam 1974. He edited and corrected the translation and the commentary by the late Wilkinson.

personal data
SURNAME	Sastri, Bapu Deva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sastri, Bapudeva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poona
DATE OF DEATH	1890

[1] Birth and career dates according to Roper Lethbridge The Golden Book of India , 1893, Reprint Aakar Books 2005. Place of birth according to Jyotis Chandra Das Gupta A national biography of India , 1911

[2] The year of death according to Radha Charan Gupta : History of Mathematics in India , in: Student's Britannica, India, Volume 6, Select Essays, 2000, p. 333. Sometimes 1892 is also given.

[3] Traditionally as bankers and Hindu theologians. The ancestors came from Tonka on Godavari .

[4] Editor with F. Hall The Surya Suddhanta, an ancient system of Hindu astronomy, with Ranganatha's exposition, the Gudharta Prakasaka , Bibliotheca Indica 25, Calcutta 1854-1859

[5] A translation of the Surya Siddhanta by Pundit Bapu Deva Sastri, and of the Siddhanta Siromani by the late Lancelot Wilkinson, Esq., Revised by Pundit Bapu Deva Sastri from the Sanskrit , Calcutta 1861, Archive . Reprint Philo Press, Amsterdam 1974. He edited and corrected the translation and the commentary by the late Wilkinson.