Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.224

c9.224

The fabulous air of this passage is, in some measure, removed, by comparing it with one from Abulfaragius, who says, that, under the celebrated Al Maimon, the 7th Khalif of Babylon, (about the year 813 of our era) the astronomer Habash composed three sets of astronomical tables, one of which was *ad regulas Sind Hind*; that is, as Mr Costard explains it, according to the rules of some Indian treatise of astronomy. (*Asiatic Miscel...*Vol.I. p.34.) The *Sind-Hind* is therefore the name of an astronomical book that existed in India in the time of Habash, and the same, no doubt, which Massoudi says was ascribed to Brama.