Bapudeva Shastri (1821 – 1890) is a celebrated Indian astronomer and mathematician in the 19th century AD. His parents were Pandit Sitarama and Shrimati Satyabhama. He belonged to a Rig Vedic Brahmin family, which originally lived in Toke, a town on the bank of the Godavari River in Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra, India. Education He first studied in a Marathi school in Nagpur, where he learnt Bhaskara’s Lilavati and Bijaganita from Kanyakubja scholar named Dhundhiraja, who was also an expert on European Algebra. Looking at his capability, L .Wilkinson, an agent of the British Government, took him to the Sanskrit school at Sihora for higher studies in 1838 AD. Here he studied Geometry (Rekha Ganita) and other subjects from Sevarama, a well known astronomer. Around this period, European Science was finding its way into India, Bapudeva Shastri had an opportunity to learn European Astronomy and Mathematics. Career In 1841 AD, Wilkinson appointed him as a teacher of Geo