Bapudeva Sastri

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Bapudeva Sastri was a Brahman pundit who became the first professor of both Indian and western astronomy.

A graduate of Lancelot Wilkinson's school in Sehore, Sastri from there went to Benares Sanskrit College.

He translated the Siddhanta Siromani, (a treatise on Hindu astronomy written in the twelfth century by Bhaskaracharya) and published it in Benares in 1891. With Lancelot Wilkinson, Sastri wrote The Surya Siddhanta, or an Ancient System of Hindu Astronomy.

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• 1. Somanath Vyas, Hindu Savant http;//www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/CRFoxYoun.3.htm