सिद्धान्तशिरोमणि: गणिताध्याय (भास्कराचार्य - ग्रहगणित, मध्यमाधिकार व स्पष्टाधिकार सटीक)

BIOGRAPHICAL

1. In the state known as the Andhra Pradesh, there
   is a famous city called Rajahmundry on the
   banks of the holy Godāvarī. Not far away from
   this City, there is a village known Velicheru,
   teeming with Vedic and Sanskrit scholars. There
   I had my birth in a family reputed for a religious
   conduct.
2. My mother, by name, Mangamāmbā led her life
   both in the worship of my father, and her
   favourite Deity Kanaka Durgā. My father, a
   Vedic scholar conducted his life on a rigorous
   Vedic path. Alas! It was not given to me to
   serve them for long!
3. I bow to my eldest brother Śri Venkata Rāma
   who leads a rigorously religious life, and who
   it was, that initiated me into a study of the Vedic
   and Sanskrit lore.
4. I bow to my next elder brother by name
   Subrahmaṇya Somayāji who has passed away
   having spent his life in worshipping God and
   godly Brahmins.
5. Alas! Though I was initiated into the Vedic and
   Sanskrit lore in my boyhood, I was later
   distracted into the secular English education
   only to eke out my livelihood, as if this is the
   Summum Bonum of Life.