Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c46.s3.11

v2.c46.s3.11

During Varāhamihira’s time there was a healthy respect for foreign scholars (Br. Sam., 2.4 and 2.32), but in the eleventh century AD, Al-Beruni observed in India an insular attitude and the vice of vainglory amongst the contemporary Indian scholars. (Sachau, 1910, 1983, Vol.1, pp. 22-23)