[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.c32.151 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.151 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.151 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.151](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.151) ∗ \*Vide\* the palm-leaf MSS. discovered in the monastery of Horiuzi in Japan and carried from Central India. One of these is in the handwriting of a famous Chinese priest, named Kanshin, who came to Japan in A. D. 753. The MS. contains besides a Dhāraṇī, five Tantras. "Bud. Texts from Japan," ed. by Max Muller. Vol. i, pt. i. Intro. pp. 6-8. It is fair to conclude that these Tantras existed in the land of their birth at least two centuries earlier. - [Previous: v2.c32.150](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.150) - [Next: v2.c32.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.152) - [Up: v2.c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.151](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.151) · Pramāṇa