A Concise History of Science in India c18.1

c18.1

Abacus of Gerbert, 212 Abhayadeva Sūrī, 145 *Abhidhammapiṭaka*, 39, 40 *Abhidharmahr̥daya*, 41 *Abhidharmakośa*, 41 *Abhidharmakośa vyākhyā*, 41 *Abhijit, nakṣatra*, 61, 68, 81 *Abhijñāna Śakuntala*, 37 *Abhilaṣitārtha cintāmaṇi*, 34 Absolute, 449 Abu ‘Ali Husain b. Abdallāh b. Sīnā, 54, 269 Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Zakariyya ar-Rāzī, 269 Abū Ishāq b. ‘Abdu’llāh, 52, 208 Abū Kāmil, 190 Abū'l-Aswad, 47 Abū'l-Faiz Faizi, 52 Abū'l-Faraj Muhammad b. Ishāq al-Warraq, 48 Abū'l-Fazl, 50, 217 Abū Manṣūr Muwallaq ibn ‘Alī al-Harawī, 47 Abū Mā‘shār, 49, 134, 211 Abū Raiḥān Muhammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī, *see* under al-Bīrūnī Abydos, 14 *Ācāraṅga*, 42 Acids, 307 Adamgarh, 3 al-Adamī, 52, 211 Adelard of Bath, 135, 211, 212, 585 *Adharma*, 466 *Adhasvastika* (nadir), 103 Adicanallur, 14, 289 *Aditi*, 453 *Āditya Purāṇa*, 49 *Agadatantra* (toxicology), 228, 230–31 Agarias, 302 *Agni* (digestive fire), 241 *Agni Purāṇa*, 26, 36, 56, 173, 229 255, 256, 379, 385, 592 Agniveśa, 52, 233 *Saṃhitā*, 223, 224, 226, 234, 258 *Agnyādhāna*, 59 Agricultural colleges and schools, 554–55 Agricultural implements, 360 Agricultural meteorology, 33 Agricultural proverbs, 364–66 Agricultural research, 537 Agri-horticultural Society, 500 *Ahaṃkāra* (ego), 236 Ahar, *see* under culture *Ahargaṇa*, 82, 84, 85, 88 method of computing, 109–11 Ahicchatra, 13, 15, 285, 291, 292, 297, 299 Aḥmad b. Thābit, 52, 207 Aḥmad b. ‘Umar al-Karābīsī, 206 *Ā’īn-ı Akbarī*, 50, 56, 345 *Aitareya Āraṇyaka*, 21 *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, 20, 62, 76, 222 *Aitareya Upaniṣad*, 21 Ajanta, 308 Ajitakesakambali, 32 Ājīvakas, 32 Akalaṅka, 44 *Ākāśa*, 460, 466, 475, 476, 482 *Ākāśabhairavakalpa*, 56 *Ākāśīyadravya*, 458 Akṣapāda, 30 *Al*, a red dye, 395 Alabaster, 283 Alamgirpur, 6, 12, 13, 287 Alchemy, 309–12, 588 apparatus, 330–33 Indian, 313–18 literature of, 55, 314–15 Alcock, 535 Alef-zero, 159 Algebra, 151–57, 189–98 *Algorism, new arithmetic*, 179 *Algorismus vulgaris*, 212 *Algoritmi de numero Indorum*, 212 Alibag Observatory, 506 Ali b. Rabban, 54, 269, 596 Ali ibn Zain, 260 Alkaloids, 349 Allāh-Dād, 126 *Almagest*, 101, 102, 171, 182, 594