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This book mainly focuses on the life and contribution of Acarya Varahmihira, one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the ‘Golden Age of mathematics’ in India (from 5th to 12th Century AD), to the discipline. Since Varahmihira, following the ancient India tradition had written almost nothing about himself, there remained a lot of ambiguity about his life and flourishing time. It examines in detail almost all available evidences and attempts to set right the arising disputes. Refuting convincingly, the assertions of H.T. Colebrooke (1872) and Swami Satya Prakash Saraswati that Aryabhat was the founder of Algebra in India, the book present the systematic account of algebraic equations, permutations and combinations from many centuries prior to Aryabhat and highlights the role of Varahmihira and his school up to the time of Bhaskaracarya.

The Book claims that 200 years before the Ptolemy’s observatory Alexandria, two observatory were established as Ujjain and Dhar, which were renovated by Varahmihira, who constructed the first observatory of the Middle East at Junde-Shapur in Iran during the reign of the king Khusro-l Anosharvan.
Finally, it presents an interesting account of the journey of Indian Mathematics to the court of Khalifa Al Mansur, which paved the way for systematic development of Mathematics in Europe.