Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c33.10

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Several appendices are presented at the end of this volume. The technical words appearing in the literature have been stratified: (A) modern scientific nomenclatures, then those belonging to, (B) *Ṛgveda* and post-*Ṛgvedic* period, (C) Pāṇini’s *Aṣṭādhyāyī*, (D) Kauṭilīya *Arthaśāstra*, and (E) post-Christian eras. The entire Sanskrit literature on minerals and metals has been scanned from a modern standpoint, and therefore, appendix ‘A’ fittingly provides scientific information on the minerals discussed in this thesis. Our studies on the subject up to AD 1200 (earlier Volume I and this Volume II) are being extended to cover the pre-modern period (AD 1200-1900) as well.