[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) › v2.c32.144 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.144 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.144 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.144) come across in the "Buddhacharita" of Asvaghosha, who is admitted on all hands to be a contemporary of Kanishka, such a passage as this: "this, Sirs, is the Maháyána, the instrument of the law of the perfect Buddha, which is the establisher of the welfare of all beings, set forth by all the Buddhas."\* The "Lotus of good Law" was translated into Chinese at the close of the second century A. D. † - [Previous: v2.c32.143](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.143) - [Next: v2.c32.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.145) - [Up: v2.c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32) ## Linked texts (2) - [\*Buddhacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.buddhacarita) — Sanskrit - [Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.144) · Pramāṇa