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 9 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas, a Vanished Indian Religion
By Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Published by Motilal Banarsidass Publications - 1951

The book presents the history and the Doctrines of the Ajivikas who formed a third heretical sect besides the sect of Gautama Budd... Read More
 9 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The AJIVIKAS
By Beni Madhab Barua
Published by The University of Calcutta - 1920

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Ajivika, an ascetic sect that emerged in India about the same time as Buddhism and Jainism and that lasted unti... Read More
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 9 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Reprint:
The Wonder That Was India
By Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Published by Pan Macmillan
First published in 1954, London

A classic that anybody with an interest in the civilisational beginnings of India must read, this is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love A.L. Basham’s '... Read More
 9 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The AJIVIKAS
By Beni Madhab Barua
Published by The University of Calcutta - 1920

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Ajivika, an ascetic sect that emerged in India about the same time as Buddhism and Jainism and that lasted unti... Read More
 8 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy
By K.Venkateswara Sarma
Published by Vishveshvaranand Institute, Hoshiarpur - 1972

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 3 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus
With a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern European surgeons.
By Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya
Published by Calcutta University, Calcutta - 1913
In Two Volumes

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 2 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of the Deccan.
By James Dunning Baker Gribble
Published by Luzac and Co., London - 1896

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Preface by the author written 1895:

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 2 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
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 2 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of the Deccan.
By James Dunning Baker Gribble
Published by Luzac and Co., London - 1896

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Preface by the author written 1895:

..."I was first struck with the necessity of a work of ... Read More
 29 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On the Bakhshali Manuscript
By Dr. Rudolf Hoernle
Published by Alfred Holder, Vienna - 1887

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The Bakhshali manuscript is an early mathematical manuscript which was discovered over 100 years ago... Read More
 28 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A comparative study of the early treatises introducing into Europe the Hindu art of reckoning
By Suzan Rose Benedict
Published by the University of Michigan - 1916

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 28 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
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Diophantus of Alexandria - A study in the history of Greek algebra
By Sir Thomas L. Heath
Published by University Press in Cambridge - 1910

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How the myth of Greek origins for Indian mathematic... Read More
 27 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Diophantus of Alexandria - A study in the history of Greek algebra
By Sir Thomas L. Heath
Published by University Press in Cambridge - 1910

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 26 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Mathematics:
By George Rusby Kaye
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta - 1915

A highly influential work that formed the basis of research for many respected European scholars at the time. G. R. Kaye’s biased view of Greek influence of anything Indian prompted o... Read More
 25 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Mathematics:
By George Rusby Kaye
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta - 1915

A highly influential work that formed the basis of research for many respected European scholars at the time. G. R. Kaye’s biased view of Greek influence of anything Indian prompted oth... Read More
 25 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
By David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski
Published by Ginn and Company, London - 1911

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Early ideas of their origin:

It has long been recognized that the com... Read More
 23 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Ashtadhyayi of PANINI
Translated into English by Srisa Chandra Vas
Published by Sindhu Charan Bose, at the Panini Office in Benares - 1897
Volume 6
In Sanskrit

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Panini was born in Shalatula, a town near to Attock on the Indus river... Read More
 23 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Katyayana-sulbasutram
Published by Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi - 1900
In Sanskrit

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Katyayana (c. 3rd century BC) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who li... Read More
 23 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Grihya-sutras
Rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies
Translated by Hermann Oldenberg
Published by Clarendon Press in Oxford - 1886

Grihya-sutra, in Hinduism, any of a number of manuals detailing the domestic (grihya) religious ceremonies performed by both male and female hou... Read More
 23 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
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