Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c23.5

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4. Scientific investigation was not confined to any particular province of India or to any race or class of the Hindu population. It was a cooperative undertaking, a process of cumulative effort in intellectual advance. Thus, among the heroes of Hindu medicine,⁵⁵ Charaka (*c* 600 B.C.) belongs to the Punjab in the N.W., Sushruta (*c* 100 A.D.) is claimed by the Punjab as well as Benares in the Middle West, Vagbhata (*c* 700) belongs to Sindh (Western India), Vrinda (900) to the Deccan (Middle South), Chakrapani (1050) to Bengal (Eastern India), Sharamgadhara (1350) to Rajputana (Further West), Visnudeva (1350) to Vijayanagara (Extreme South), and Narahari (seventeenth century) is claimed by Kashmir (Extreme North) but belongs most probably to Maharastra (Western Coasts).