This unique monograph on Brahmagupta and His Contributions to Mathematics and Astronomy is sure to be read with great interest by those who possess a historic sense of evaluation in the development of positive knowledge through ages. Here is a celebrated author of the Sixth Century AD who ranks very high among the great mathematicians of the world, and who has been widely known for his comprehensive treatises - the Brahmasphuta-siddhanta and the Khandakhadyaka which carried astronomy to distant lands like Arab and Greece. Not only that our Brahmagupta is one of the master-creators of applied mathematics, he laid the foundations of spherical trigonometry, spherical astronomy and the basic foundations of calculus and also introduced novel methods for solving complicated propositions. One cannot think of Aryan mathematics without a reference to such masters as Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and Bhaskara. Brahmagupta was well known for his prestigious superiority, accuracy and originality.

Content - 1. Astronomy in ancient nations, 2. Personal references of Brahmagupta, 3. Brahma Sphuta-Siddhanta and Khandakhadyaka, 4. Brahmagupta's originality in the  Khandakhadyaka, 5. Indian luni-solar Astronomy, 6. Greek & Hindu methods in Spherical  Astronomy, 7. Epicycllic theory of Ancient Indians, 8. Brahmagupta and Arithmetic,  9. Brahmagupta as an Algebraist, 10. Arabic and Indian divisions of the Zodiac, 11. Brahmagupta's Astronomy : its highlights, 12. Brahmagupta-a great critic, 13. Brahmagupta and Astronomical Instruments