A Concise History of Science in India c18.5

c18.5

Babbage, Charles, 565 Babur, as a naturalist, 440 Babylonian astronomy, influence of, on Indian astronomy, 131–32 Bacon, Francis, 487 *Badāi‘ul-Kanūn*, 208 Badami, 308 *Badan*, Arabic translation of *Nidāna*, 260 Badarian pottery, 14 Bagh, 308 Bahadarabad, 12, 282 Bahal, 11, 13, 279, 297 Bahā‘u-ddīn al-Amulī, 52, 208 Bairat, 13, 287, 297 Bakhshālī Manuscript, 51, 164–65, 183, 190, 191, 195 Bakhtyashū‘ family, 47 Balances, characteristics of good and false, 33 *Bānaśāstra*, 56, 345 Bangarh, 297 Banks, Sir Joseph, 402 Barasingha, 406, 419 *Bārhaspatya-Arthaśāstra*, 32 Barley, 7, 16, 351, 371–72, 393, 578, 599 Basevi, J. P., 506, 604 al-Battānī, 134 Baudhāyana, 18, 25, *see also under Śulba-Sūtras* Beads, 33, 292 Bear, 443 Bees, 418 Bellows, 290 Bengal Chemical Works, 564 Bengal Iron Company, 564 *Bengal Plants*, 520 Bentinck, W., 546 Bernier, F., 485 *Bhadrabāhavī Saṃhitā*, 158 Bhadrabāhu, 43, 80, 144, 158 Bhagatrav, 11 *Bhāgavata Purāṇa*, 36 *Bhāgavatgītā*, 49 *Bhagavatī-Sūtra*, 42, 80, 158, 162 Bhagra Pir, 282 Bhang, 391, 396 *Bhānumatī*, 230 Bharadvāja, 25, 60 *Bhāṣāpariccheda*, 31 Bhāsarvajña, 31 Bhāskara I, 51, 90, 94, 95, 125, 165–66, 175, 192, 200, 584 Bhāskara II, Bhāskarācārya, 51, 91, 92, 97, 98, 100, 117, 125, 145, 158, 168–69, 175, 180, 183, 184, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203, 204, 208, 584, 585, 586, 593 *Bhasma*, a process of converting minerals, 324 *Bhāsvatī*, 51, 90, 98 *Bhāṣyas*, philosophical, 27–32 *Bhaṭadīpikā*, 99, 170 Bhaṭṭotpala, 92, 95, 97, 158, 166, 187 Bhau Daji, 539 Bhavabhuti, 35 Bhāvamiśra, 53, 264, 595 *Bhāvanā* (lemma), in algebra, 193, 194 *Bhāvaprakāśa*, 53, 264, 595 *Bhaviṣya Purāṇa*, 36 *Bheḍa* or *Bhela Saṃhitā*, 52, 222, 227, 258, 259 *Bhikkunivibhaṅga*, 39 Bhir Mound, 292, 293 Bhita, 291, 292, 297 Bhoja, Bhojadeva, 34, 35 Bhojarāja, 54, 254 *Bhoja-Saṃhitā*, 226 Bhūdhara, 92 *Bhūdhara yantram*, 333 *Bhūtavidyā* (knowledge of mental diseases and diseases of supernatural origin), 228, 229–30 *Bhūtaviṣṇu*, 94 *Bīja*, 435 *Bījagaṇita*, of Bhāskara II, 51, 98, 99, 168, 171, 208, 595 *Bījagaṇitāvatamsa*, 51, 169, 594 Bill-hooks, 289 Binomial theorem, 26, 157, 576 *Biophytum sensitivum*, 558