Indian Mathematics c10.6

c10.6

An inscription found in a ruined temple at Pāṭnā, a deserted village of Khandesh in the Bombay Presidency, refers to Bhāskara in the following terms: ‘Triumphant is the illustrious Bhāskarāchārya whose feet are revered by the wise, eminently learned .... who laid down the law in metrics, was deeply versed in the Vaiseshika system, .... was in poetics a poet, like unto the three-eyed in the three branches, the multifarious arithmetic and the rest.... Bhāskara, the learned, endowed with good fame and religious merit, the root of the creeper—true knowledge of the Veda, an omniscient seat of learning; whose feet were revered by crowds of poets, etc.