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The view of his Disciple Manjula Trivedi, Honorary General Secretary, Sri Vishwa Punarnirmana Sangha, Nagpur written on 16^th March 1965 and published in a reprint and revised edition of the book on Vedic Mathematics reads as follows.

“I now proceed to give a short account of the genesis of the work published here. Revered Guruji used to say that he had reconstructed the sixteen mathematical formulae (given in this text) from the Atharveda after assiduous research and ‘Tapas’

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for about eight years in the forests surrounding Sringeri.

Obviously these formulae are not to be found in the present recensions of Atharvaveda; they were actually reconstructed, on the basis of intuitive revelation, from materials scattered here and there in the Atharvaveda. Revered Gurudeva used to say that he had written sixteen volumes on these sutras one for each sutra and that the manuscripts of the said volumes were deposited at the house of one of his disciples. Unfortunately the said manuscripts were lost irretrievably from the place of their deposit and this colossal loss was finally confirmed in 1956.

Revered Gurudeva was not much perturbed over this irretrievable loss and used to say that everything was there in his memory and that he would rewrite the 16 volumes!

In 1957, when he had decided finally to undertake a tour of the USA he rewrote from memory the present volume giving an introductory account of the sixteen formulae reconstructed by him …. The present volume is the only work on mathematics that has been left over by Revered Guruji.

The typescript of the present volume was left over by Revered Gurudeva in USA in 1958 for publication. He had been given to understand that he would have to go to the USA for correction of proofs and personal supervision of printing. But his health deteriorated after his return to India and finally the typescript was brought back from the USA after his attainment of Mahasamadhi in 1960.”

A brief sketch from the Statesman, India dated 10^th Jan 1956 read as follows. “Sri Shankaracharya denies any spiritual or miraculous powers giving the credit for his revolutionary knowledge to anonymous ancients, who in 16 sutras and 120 words laid down simple formulae for all the world’s mathematical problems […]. I could read a short descriptive note he had prepared on, “The Astounding Wonders of Ancient Indian Vedic Mathematics”. His Holiness, it appears, had spent years in contemplation, and while going through the Vedas had suddenly happened upon the key to what many historians, devotees and translators had dismissed as meaningless jargon.

There, contained in certain Sutras, were the processes of mathematics, psychology, ethics and metaphysics.

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“During the reign of King Kamsa” read a sutra, “rebellions, arson, famines and insanitary conditions prevailed”. Decoded this little piece of libelous history gave decimal answer to the fraction 1/17, sixteen processes of simple mathematics reduced to one.

The discovery of one key led to another, and His Holiness found himself turning more and more to the astounding knowledge contained in words whose real meaning had been lost to humanity for generations. This loss is obviously one of the greatest mankind has suffered and I suspect, resulted from the secret being entrusted to people like myself, to whom a square root is one of life’s perpetual mysteries. Had it survived, every – educated ‘soul’ would be a mathematical ‘wizard’ and maths ‘masters’ would “starve”. For my note reads “Little children merely look at the sums written on the blackboard and immediately shout out the answers they have … [Pages 353-355 Vedic Mathematics]

We now briefly quote the views of S.C. Sharma, Ex Head of the Department of Mathematics, NCERT given in Mathematics Today, September 1986.

“The epoch-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of approach. It relates to the truth of numbers and magnitudes equally applicable to all sciences and arts.

The book brings to light how great and true knowledge is born of intuition, quite different from modern western method.

The ancient Indian method and its secret techniques are examined and shown to be capable of solving various problems of mathematics. The universe we live in has a basic mathematical structure obeying the rules of mathematical measures and relations. All the subjects in mathematics – Multiplication, Division, Factorization Equations of calculus Analytical Conics etc. are dealt with in forty chapters vividly working out all problems, in the easiest ever method discovered so far. The volume more a magic is the result of institutional visualization of fundamental mathematical truths born after eight years of highly concentrated endeavor of Jagadguru Sri Bharati Krishna Tirtha.

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Throughout this book efforts have been made to solve the problems in a short time and in short space also …, one can see that the formulae given by the author from Vedas are very interesting and encourage a young mind for learning mathematics as it will not be a bugbear to him”.

This writing finds its place in the back cover of the book of Vedic Mathematics of Jagadguru. Now we give the views of Bibek Debroy, “The fundamentals of Vedic Mathematics” pp.

126-127 of Vedic Mathematics in Tamil volume II).

“Though Vedic Mathematics evokes Hindutva connotations, the fact is, it is a system of simple arithmetic, which can be used for intricate calculations.

The resurgence of interest in Vedic Mathematics came about as a result of Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaj publishing a book on the subject in 1965. Then recently the erstwhile Bharatiya Janata Party governments in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh introduced Vedic Mathematics into the school syllabus, but this move was perceived as an attempt to impose Hindutva, because Vedic philosophy was being projected as the repository of all human wisdom. The subsequent hue and cry over the teaching of Vedic Mathematics is mainly because it has come to be identified with, fundamentalism and obscurantism, both considered poles opposite of science. The critics argue that belief in Vedic Mathematics automatically necessitates belief in Hindu renaissance. But Tirtha is not without his critics, even apart from those who consider Vedic maths is “unscientific”.