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	'''''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''''' ([[Sanskrit]]: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि ~~for~~ "Crown of treatises"{{sfn\|Plofker\|2009\|p=71}}) is the major treatise of Indian mathematician [[Bhāskara II]]. He wrote the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' in 1150 when he was 36 years old. The work is composed in Sanskrit Language in 1450 verses.<ref>{{cite web\|title=khagol Maandal\|url=http://www.khagolmandal.com/index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=45&limitstart=1}}</ref>		[[File:Page from Lilavati, the first volume of Siddhānta Śiromaṇī. Use of the Pythagorean theorem in the corner.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.5\|Page from ''Lilavati'', the first volume of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇī''. Use of the Pythagorean theorem in the corner. 1650 edition]]
			'''''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''''' ([[Sanskrit]]: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि, "Crown of treatises"){{sfn\|Kim Plofker\|2009\|p=71}} is the major treatise of Indian mathematician [[Bhāskara II]].<ref>{{citation\|first=David M.\|last=Burton\|title=The History of Mathematics: An Introduction\|edition= 7th\|year=2011\|publisher=McGraw Hill\|isbn=978-0-07-338315-6}}</ref> He wrote the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' in 1150 when he was 36 years old. The work is composed in Sanskrit Language in 1450 verses.<ref>{{cite web\|title=khagol Maandal\|url=http://www.khagolmandal.com/index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=45&limitstart=1}}</ref>

	==Parts==		==Parts==
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	The name of the book comes from his daughter, Līlāvatī. It is the first volume of the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''. The book contains thirteen chapters, 278 verses, mainly [[arithmetic]] and [[measurement]].		The name of the book comes from his daughter, Līlāvatī. It is the first volume of the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''. The book contains thirteen chapters, 278 verses, mainly [[arithmetic]] and [[measurement]].

	===~~Bījagaṇita~~===		===Beejagaṇita===
	{{Main\|Bijaganita}}		{{Main\|Bijaganita}}

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	=== ''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' ===		=== ''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' ===

	''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' are devoted to astronomy. All put together there are about 900 verses.<ref>{{cite web\|title=~~BHASKAR’S~~ ASTRONOMY\|url=http://www.khagolmandal.com/index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=45&limitstart=2}}</ref> (''Gaṇitādhyāya'' has 451 and ''Golādhyāya'' has 501 verses).		''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' are devoted to astronomy. All put together there are about 900 verses.<ref>{{cite web\|title=BHASKAR'S ASTRONOMY\|url=http://www.khagolmandal.com/index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=45&limitstart=2}}</ref> (''Gaṇitādhyāya'' has 451 and ''Golādhyāya'' has 501 verses).

			== Translations ==

			In 1797, Safdar Ali Khan of [[Hyderabad State\|Hyderabad]] translated the ''Siddhanta Shiromani'' into Persian as ''Zij-i Sarumani''. The translation is now a [[Lost literary work\|lost work]], and is known only from a mention in Khan's other work - ''Zij-i Safdari''.<ref>{{cite book \|author=S. M. Razaullah Ansari \|chapter=Persian translations of Bhāskara's Sanskrit texts and their impact in the following centuries \|editor1=K. Ramasubramanian \|editor2=[[Takao Hayashi]] \|editor3=Clemency Montelle \|title=Bhāskara-prabhā: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences \|series=Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences \|publisher=Springer \|year=2019 \|isbn=9789811360343 \|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-6034-3_18 \|page=386 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|author=K. Ramasubramanian \|chapter=The Last Combinatorial Problem in Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī \|title=Gaṇitānanda \|year=2019 \|publisher=Springer \|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_30 \|isbn=9789811312298 \|page=291 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AEe9DwAAQBAJ }}</ref>

	==References==		==References==
	{{Reflist}}		{{Reflist}}

			=== Bibliography ===
			{{ref begin}}
			* {{cite book \|author=Kim Plofker \|author-link=Kim Plofker \|title=Mathematics in India \|title-link= Mathematics in India (book) \|year=2009 \|publisher=Princeton University Press \|isbn=9780691120676}}
			{{ref end}}

	==External links ==		==External links ==
	* [https://archive.org/details/SiddhantaSiromaniSanskrit Scan of reprint] [https://archive.org/stream/siddhntairomai00bhskuoft#page/n3/mode/2up A 1917 edition]		* [https://archive.org/details/SiddhantaSiromaniSanskrit Scan of reprint] [https://archive.org/stream/siddhntairomai00bhskuoft#page/n3/mode/2up A 1917 edition]
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'''''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''''' ([[Sanskrit]]: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि for "Crown of treatises"{{sfn|Plofker|2009|p=71}}) is the major treatise of Indian mathematician [[Bhāskara II]]. He wrote the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' in 1150 when he was 36 years old. The work is composed in Sanskrit Language in 1450 verses.<ref>{{cite web|title=khagol Maandal|url=http://www.khagolmandal.com/index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=45&limitstart=1}}</ref>

==Parts==

===Līlāvatī===
{{Main|Līlāvatī}}

The name of the book comes from his daughter, Līlāvatī. It is the first volume of the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''. The book contains thirteen chapters, 278 verses, mainly [[arithmetic]] and [[measurement]].

===Bījagaṇita===
{{Main|Bijaganita}}

It is the second volume of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi''. It is divided into six parts, contains 213 verses and is devoted to [[algebra]].

=== ''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' ===

''Gaṇitādhyāya'' and ''Golādhyāya'' of ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' are devoted to astronomy. All put together there are about 900 verses.<ref>{{cite web|title=BHASKAR’S ASTRONOMY|url=http://www.khagolmandal.com/index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=45&limitstart=2}}</ref> (''Gaṇitādhyāya'' has 451 and ''Golādhyāya'' has 501 verses).

==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links ==
* [https://archive.org/details/SiddhantaSiromaniSanskrit Scan of reprint] [https://archive.org/stream/siddhntairomai00bhskuoft#page/n3/mode/2up A 1917 edition]

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