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Bhaskaracarya, 첹峦ⲹ, Bhaskara-acarya: 5 definitions

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Bhaskaracarya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Alternative spellings of this word include Bhaskaracharya.

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Bhaskaracarya in Chandas glossary
: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

첹峦ⲹ (भास्कराचार्य) or 첹峦ⲹ II (b. 1115 C.E.) was the son and disciple of Maheśvara. He was a great scholar of Indian Mathematics. He is credited with numerous works and Līlāvatī is one among them. Legend says he composed this work at the instance of his daughter Līlāvatī. At the end of its first chapter 첹峦ⲹ discusses about permutation of metres and gives examples of Գṣṭܱ and ⲹٰī. 첹峦ⲹ gives method of calculation of these metres, as an instance for other metres.

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Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.

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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

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: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

첹峦ⲹ (भास्कराचार्य).—A master astronomer of ancient India. It was he who declared, much earlier than western experts, that the earth is round in shape.

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The Purana (पुरा�, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Bhaskaracarya in Sanskrit glossary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Bhāskara ācārya (भास्कर आचार्य) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Brahmasūtrabhāṣya. Brahmasūtrabhāṣyasāra. He is mentioned in the Saṃkṣepaśaṅkarajaya Oxf. 255^b. 258^b.

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Bhāskara ācārya (भास्कर आचार्य):—Vākyapañcādhyāyī.

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Bhāskara ācārya (भास्कर आचार्य):—son of Maheśvara, was born in 1115, and completed the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi in 1151, the Karaṇakutūhala in 1184: Karaṇakutūhala, Grahāgamakutūhala, Brahmatulyakaraṇakutūhala, Brahmatulyasiddhānta. Karaṇakesarin. Gaṇitapadī. Grahagaṇita. Grahalāghava Jñānabhāskara. Rekhāgaṇita. Liṅgaśāstra jy. Vivāhapaṭala (?). P. 15. Siddhāntaśiromaṇi with
—[commentary] and Vāsanābhāṣya. Sūtragaṇita. Oppert. Ii, 2805. Sūryasiddhāntavyākhyā. Oppert. 4537. Bhāskaradīkṣitīya jy. Oppert. 5116.

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Bhāskara ācārya (भास्कर आचार्य):—the author of a Brahmasūtrabhāṣya is Nimbārka.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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