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The Pearl in the Water Clock

A pearl fell into a water clock and the hour was missed. So he wrote a book and put her name on it.

Bhaskaracharya was born in 1114. He is at times called Bhaskara the second, to keep him apart from the earlier Bhaskara who wrote on Aryabhata.

In 1150 he finished the Siddhanta Shiromani, the crown of works. It has four parts.

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