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Līlāvatī
लीलावती
The arithmetic section of the Siddhanta Shiromani, which circulated as a textbook in its own right for centuries. It covers operations, fractions, rules involving zero, series, plane geometry, mensuration and combinatorics, often posed as problems addressed to a girl named Lilavati. It was translated into Persian at the Mughal court.
- Author
- Bhaskara II
- Period
- 1150 CE
- Tradition
- Ganita