Indian Mathematics c12.5

c12.5

Although it may be possible to offer only conjectures as to the actual route by which any particular class of Greek knowledge reached India, the fact remains that during the period under consideration the intellectual influence of Greek on India was considerable. It is evident not only in the mathematical work of the Indians but also in sculpture, architecture, coinage, astronomy, astrology, &c. Mr. Vincent Smith refers "to the cumulative proof that the remarkable intellectual and artistic output of the Gupta period was produced in large measure by reason of the contact between the civilization of India and that of the Roman Empire;"' and research is almost daily adding to such proof.