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{{Short description|Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics and translator (1821-1900)}}
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[[File:Pandit Bapudeva Sastri (1821-1900), Professor of Astronomy, teaching a class at Queen's College, Varanasi.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bapudeva Sastri, holding globe,  Professor of Astronomy, teaching a class at Queen's College, [[Varanasi]], 1870.<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/p/019pho001000s46u04709000.html Pandit Bapudeva Sastri, Professor of Astronomy, teaching a class at Queen's College, Varanasi (Benares)] [[British Library]]</ref>]]

'''Bapudeva Sastri''' or '''Narasimha Deva Paranjpe''' (1821–1900) was an Indian mathematician.

==Biography==
He was born on 1 November 1821, to a [[Hindu]] [[Brahmin]] family of [[Maharashtra]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dauben |first1=Joseph W. |last2=Scriba |first2=Christoph J. |title=Born to a Brahmin parents |date=23 September 2002 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-7643-6167-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&dq=Mathematician+brahmin&pg=PA312 |language=en}}</ref> He received his early education in [[arithmetic]] and [[algebra]] at the Marathi school in [[Nagpur]]. He also studied the [[Lilāvati]] and [[Bijaganita]] under ''Dhundiraja Misra''.
Noting his talent, the British political agent [[Lancelot Wilkinson]] secured his admission to the Sehore Sanskrit school where he studied [[Siddhānta Shiromani]], Euclidean Geometry and European science in general under Pandit Sevarama and Wilkinson himself. In 1842 Sastri went to [[Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi]], where he taught rekha-ganita (Euclidean Geometry). In 1890 [[Sudhakar Dwivedi]] was appointed the teacher of [[mathematics]] and [[astrology]] after Bapudeva Sastri, retired in 1889.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joseph W. Dauben|author1-link=Joseph W. Dauben|author2=Christoph J. Scriba|author2-link=Christoph J. Scriba|title=Writing the History of Mathematics – Its Historical Development|publisher=Springer|pages=312–313}}</ref>

==Scholarly works==
Bapudeva Sastri translated the [[Siddhānta Shiromani]] (a treatise on Hindu mathematics written in the twelfth century by [[Bhaskaracharya]]) and published it in [[Benares]] in 1891. With Lancelot Wilkinson, Sastri wrote commentary on ''The [[Surya Siddhanta]]'' (a treatise on Hindu astronomy).
* ''[[:File:English translation of the Surya Siddhanta and the Siddhanta Siromani by Sastri, 1861.djvu|English translation of the Surya Siddhanta and the Siddhanta Siromani by Sastri]]'', 1861

==References==
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*1. Somanath Vyas, Hindu Savant [http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/CRFoxYoun.3.htm]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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