Bapu Deva Sastri

Bapu Deva Sastri, also Bapudeva Sastri, also Shastri, ( born 1 November 1821 in Poona, † 1890) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician.

Bapu Deva Sastri came from a well-off Brahmin Maratha in Maharashtra. He went to school in Nagpur, studied the mathematical classics of Bhaskara II at the Sanskrit school of Sehore, on the recommendation of Lancelot Wilkinson ( a British civil servants ), who was also there with his teachers in Western mathematics ( Euclid ) and science. From 1842 he taught mathematics and astronomy at the Government Sanskrit School in Varanasi ( Benares ). In 1889 he retired and was succeeded by Sudhakara Dvivedi.

Bapu Deva Sastri taught astronomy and mathematics, both by Western and after Indian classical models. He has published books on mathematics in Hindi.

He translated the Siddhanta Siromani of Bhaskara II, published in Benares in 1891 ( with his student Chandra Deva ). With Lancelot Wilkinson, he wrote a commentary on the Surya Siddhanta, an Indian classical book on astronomy.

He was a Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Royal Asiatic Society and the universities of Calcutta and Allahabad. In 1878 he became a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire.