लीलावती · Chapter Overview
From The Siddhānta Śiromaṇi, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="statement">What this book covers | The Līlāvatī is Book 1 of the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi — Bhāskara's celebrated arithmetic and mensuration. Through graceful problems about bees, peacocks, lotuses and swans it teaches computation, fractions, interest, progressions, permutations & combinations, and the areas and volumes of figures. We sample four of its verses here — the invocation, the rule of zero, a table of measures, and the famous bee problem — as a taste of a book so rich it has its own dedicated VidyāSetu course.</pre>