A Concise History of Science in India c18.3

c18.3

*Āryabhaṭīya-bhāṣya*, 99 Aryaman's path, 62, 63 *Āryā* meter in scientific composition, 24, 29 *Ārya Siddhānta*, 97 *Asaṃkhyātapradesika*, 467 *Āsava*, 305 Ascending node, 120 Ascensional difference, *cara*, 84, 107-9, 135 Asiatic Society, The, 495-96, 499, 529, 601 *Asiatick Researches*, 500 *Aśmacakra*, 358 *Āsmaka-sphuṭa-tantra*, 93 Aśoka, 39 Aśokan edicts, 2 Ass, 419 Assur, 291 *Aṣṭādhyāyī*, 25, 26 Aṣṭāṅga Āyurveda College, Calcutta, 267 *Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃgraha*, 53, 226, 227, 269, 587 *Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha*, 53, 226 *Astankar*, Arabic translation of *Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya*, 260 Astrolabe, 126-29 Astronomers, name of, in *Bṛhatsaṃhitā*, 79 Astronomical Board at Chang-Nan, 133, 209 Astronomical investigations, in the 19th century, 505-6 Astronomy, 58 ff. Indian, among Arabs and in Latin Europe, 133-35 Indian, in China, 133 Jaina, 78 late Vedic, 78 pre-Siddhāntic, 78 Vedic—*Saṃhitās*, *Brāhmaṇas*, *Sūtras*, 60 ff., 573-75 Āsuri, 29 *Asuta*, 306 Aśvaghoṣa, 24, 37 *Aśvamedha*, 417 *Aśvaśāstra*, 54, 255 *Aśvavaidyaka*, 54, 255, 581 *Ātaṅkadarpaṇa* of Vācaspati, 227, 587 ‘Aṭau’llāh Rashīdī, 52, 171, 208 Atharvan, 19 *Atharvāṅgirasaḥ*, 19 *Atharvaveda*, 15, 18, 19-20, 21, 28, 59, 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219, 259, 285, 352, 353, 373, 378, 385, 417, 574 Atomic character of elements (of the Nāstikas), 32