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“The Līlāvatī of Bhāskara II (1150 CE) is an arithmetic and geometry textbook composed in Sanskrit verse, with word problems addressed to a woman — by tradition Bhāskara's daughter Līlāvatī. Colebrooke §54: a swarm of bees splits into fifths and thirds among named flowers, one bee hovers between a jasmine and a pandanus; find the swarm. The book stayed the subcontinent's standard mathematics text for roughly 700 years and was translated into Persian at Akbar's court (Fyzī, 1587). ”