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.