Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v1.c7.184

v1.c7.184

ANDUBARIUS The Chronicon Paschale, a Byzantine chronicle of the early seventh century (ed. L. Dindorff, 2 vols., Bonn 1832), recounts the following legend (of Arphaxad, a wise astronomer named Andubarius, who first wrote astronomy for the Indians.” The complete lack of a historical basis for this story is proved—if proof is necessary—by the fact that the nu in Andubarius must be a misreading of a miniscule beta: the name is Semitic, corresponding to the Arabic ‘Abd al-Bārī’ (“the slave of the Creator”).