Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharaja

• Became Sankaracharya (major religous leader) of Govardhana Matha (akin to a monastery) in Puri, a city in the east Indian state of Orissa

• Wrote sixteen volumes based on sixteen Sutras written 1911-1918

• Volumes were unaccountably lost without a trace

• Rewrote manuscript from memory in 1956-7 before touring the USA; published posthumously in 1965 as “Vedic Mathematics”