[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c9.s2.88 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s2.88 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s2.88 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.s2.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.88) ¹ A recent examination of the Sanskrit Mss. in the Durbar Library of Nepal has brought to light important old Tantric works. One, the Lamkávatára, a Hindu Tantric work on medicine, written in a later Gupta hand (908 A. D.); another, "the composition of which must go back to the early centuries of the Christian era." This discovery upsets all established theories as to the age of the Tantras, a full discussion of which must be reserved for the second volume Vide.—Rep. on the Search of Sans. Mss. (1895-1900) by M. H. P. Sástri. - [Previous: v1.c9.s2.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.87) - [Next: v1.c9.s2.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.89) - [Up: v1.c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2) ## Cites (1) - [Laṅkāvatāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.jaina.lankavatara) — Samantabhadra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.88) · Pramāṇa