[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918) › c6.8 # Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.8 Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.8 - **Language:** English ### [c6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c6.8) Hindu investigations in exact science, as briefly summarized here, come down to about 1200 A.D. Strictly speaking, they cover the period from the "Atharva Veda" (\*c\* 800 B.C.), one of the Hindu Scriptures, to Bhaskaracharya (\*c\* 1150), the mathematician; or rather to the middle of the fourteenth century, represented by Madhavacharya, the compiler of "The Sixteen Systems of Philosophy" (1331), Gunaratna (1350), the logician, "Rasa-ratna-samuchchaya," the work on chemistry, and Madanapala, author of the "Materia Medica" (1374) named after himself. - [Previous: c6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c6.7) - [Next: c6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c6.9) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c6) ## Cites (3) - [Rasaratnasamuccaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.samuccaya.pramukha.rasaratnasamuccaya) — Vāgbhaṭa (alchemist), Sanskrit - [Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsana.sarvadarsanasangraha) — Mādhava, Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c6.8) · Pramāṇa