Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c46.s4.8
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c46.s4.8
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v2.c46.s4.8
Al-Beruni rightly accused Brahmagupta (born AD 598) for indulging in half-truths, for criticising Varāhamihira and Āryabhaṭa (who had demolished the Rāhu theory) and yet ‘calculating the diameter of the moon in order to explain her eclipsing the sun’. (Sachau, 1910, 1983, Volume 2, pp. 110-12)