[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Sanskrit Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900) › c19.40 # A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.40 A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.40 - **Language:** English ### [c19.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.40) In a few respects, however, the Indians independently advanced astronomical science further than the Greeks themselves, and at a later period they in their turn influenced the West even in astronomy. For in the eighth and ninth centuries they became the teachers of the Arabs in this science also. The \*siddhāntas\* (Arabic \*Sind Hind\*), the writings of Āryabhaṭa (called Arjehīr), and the \*Ahargaṇa\* (\*Arkand\*), attributed to Brahmagupta, were translated or adapted by the Arabs, and Khalifs of Bagdad repeatedly summoned Indian astronomers to their court to supervise this work. Through the Arabs, Indian astronomy then migrated to Europe, which in this case only received back in a roundabout way what it had given long before. Thus the Sanskrit word \*uchcha\*, “apex of a planet’s orbit,” was borrowed in the form of \*aux\* (gen. \*aug-is\*) in Latin translations of Arabic astronomers. - [Previous: c19.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.39) - [Next: c19.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.41) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Āryabhaṭīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.aryabhatiya) — Āryabhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Śvetāmbara Āgama](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.sveta) — Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.40) · Pramāṇa