The Influence of Bhaskaracarya’s Works in “Westernized” Sanskrit Mathematical Traditions

By : Kim Plofker

Page No: 97-109

Abstract
The well-known treatises of Bhaskara II or Bhaskaracarya (b.1114) are unanimously recognized as canonical in Sanskrit mathematics and mathematical astronomy, but the specific details of their influence on later works remain largely unexplored (partly because most of those later works themselves still await comprehensive study). This article examines a few texts from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries whose authors were familiar with some aspects of Greco-Islamic astronomy and mathematics, and discusses their continued use of BhÀskara’s works as a model.