Bhāskara is an epithet of the
Hindu
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
deity of the sun,
Surya
Surya ( ; , ) is the Sun#Dalal, Dalal, p. 399 as well as the solar deity in Hinduism. He is traditionally one of the major five deities in the Smarta tradition, Smarta tradition, all of whom are considered as equivalent deities in the Panchaya ...
. It may also refer to:
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Bhāskara (Bhedabheda Vedanta)
Bhāskara (8th-9th century CE) was an Indian philosopher and proponent of the Bhedabheda school of Vedanta philosophy. He wrote commentaries on the Brahma Sutras, and contested Shankara's doctrine of māyā
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, Indian philosopher who was an early figure in the Bhedabheda tradition of Vedanta
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Rao Siddani Bhaskara
Siddani Bhaskara Rao is a graph theorist, Professor Emeritus, and director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta. Rao is the first director of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. S. B. ...
(born 1943), Indian graph theorist
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Bhāskara I
Bhāskara (; commonly called Bhāskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematician Bhāskara II) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu–Arabic decimal system with a ...
(c. 600 – c. 680), Indian mathematician and commentator
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Bhāskara II
Bhāskara II ('; 1114–1185), also known as Bhāskarāchārya (), was an Indian people, Indian polymath, Indian mathematicians, mathematician, astronomer and engineer. From verses in his main work, Siddhānta Śiromaṇi, it can be inferre ...
(1114–1185), Indian mathematician and astronomer; wrote the ''Siddhanta Siromani''
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Bhaskara (Kashmiri) Bhaskara was a notable writer from the Kashmir Shaivism sect of Hinduism. He wrote an important commentary, the Varttika, on the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta.Vasugupta and Bhāskarabhaṭṭa (n.d./1992) The aphorisms of Śiva: the ŚivaSūtra with Bh� ...
, writer; wrote on the Kashmir Shaivism sect of Hinduism
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Bhaskararaya
Bhāskararāya Makhin (1690–1785) was a religious exponent and writer known for his contributions to the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. He was born in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family at Hyderabad, Telangana. Bhaskara raya was welcomed by king S ...
(1690–1785), Indian writer; wrote on the worship of the Mother Goddess in Hinduism
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Bhaskara Sethupathy
Bhaskara Sethupathy ( Muthuvijaya Raghunatha Bhaskara; 3 November 1868 – 27 December 1903) was a Zamindar of Ramnad. He became the recognised proprietor of the Ramnad estate after his father's death in 1873 until 1895. From 1895, he assumed Man ...
(1868–1905), Raja of Ramnad
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Bhaskara Satellite series
Bhaskara-I and -II were two satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation that formed India's first low-Earth orbit Earth observation satellite. They collected data on oceanography and hydrology. The satellites are named after the a ...
, satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation
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Bhaskar (disambiguation)
Bhaskar means light or the moon
People
*Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680), Indian mathematician, Bhaskaracharya
* Bhaskara II (1114–1185), Indian mathematician and astronomer
* Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale (1869–1922), Indian classical vocalist
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* Bhaskara's formula, another name (after Bhaskara II) for the
quadratic formula
In elementary algebra, the quadratic formula is a closed-form expression describing the solutions of a quadratic equation. Other ways of solving quadratic equations, such as completing the square, yield the same solutions.
Given a general quadr ...
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Bhaskara's formula or Bhāskara I's sine approximation formula
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