The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.116
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.116
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¹ For further information see G. R. Kaye, *Indian Mathematics*, Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, 1915. H. P. Sāstri points out that Indian astronomers were in the habit of recording the date of their birth, and he shows good reason for believing that Varāhamihira indicates, without expressly affirming, A. D. 505 to be the date of his birth (*J. & Proc. A. S. B.*, 1912, pp. 275–8).