Synopsis The work, Vedic Mathematics or ‘Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas’, was written by his Holiness Jagadguru Sankaracarya Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharaja of Govardhana Matha, Puri (1884-1960).  It forms a class by itself not pragmatically conceived and worked out as in the case of other scientific works, but is the result of the intuitional visualization of fundamental mathematical truths and principles during the course of eight years of highly concentrated mental endeavour on the part of the author and therefore appropriately has been given the title of “mental” mathematics appearing more as a miracle than the usual approach of hard-baked science.