Digital Rare Book:
BESHAJAKALPA
A Treatise on the technology of Ayurvedic Science By Venkatacharyulu
With a Telugu Commentary 'Prakasika' by Pandit D. Gopalacharlu
Published by Ayurvedasrama, Madras - 1914
In Telugu
PUNDIT D. GOPALACHARULU was instrumental in restoring the lost glory of Ayurveda (an ancient Indian system of medicine and healing), at a time when western medicine was beginning to gain acceptance. Born in 1872, at Machilipatnam (now in Andhra Pradesh) he studied in the Maharajah's Ayurveda Ori...
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Page of text from the Susruta Samhita, an ayurvedic textbook, on various surgical procedures and surgical instruments. The text presents itself as the teachings of Dhanvantari, King of Kasi (Benares) to his pupil Susruta.
Video:
JOURNEY OF AYURVEDA
Produced by Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, India
Ayurveda continues to grow rapidly as one of the most important systems of mind-body medicine and natural healing, as a spiritual approach to life becomes ever more important in this ecologi...
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Digital Rare Book:
The CHARAKA-SAMHITA by Mahamuni Agnibesha
Revised by Maharshi Charaka
Sanskrit medical text.
Compiled and Edited by Devendranath Sen Gupta and Upendranath Sen Gupta
Published by Dhanvantari Machine Press, Calcutta -1897
Digital Rare Book:
A History of Hindu Chemistry
From the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D., with Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations.
By Prafulla Chandra Ray
Published by The Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works, Ltd., Calcutta - 1903
Digital Rare Book:
The Materia Medica of the Hindus - Compiled from Sanksrit Medical works
By Udoy Chand Dutt
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta - 1877
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Image:
From: A catalogue of Indian medicinal plants...
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Digital Rare Book:
A Historical View of the Hindu astronomy, from the earliest dawn of science in India to the present time.
In two parts:
Part I. The ancient astronomy.
Part II. The modern astronomy, with an explanation of the apparent cause of its introduction, and the various impositions...
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Samgrahanisutra or Samgrahaniratna
18th century, Rajasthan
The Sangrahanisutra is a cosmological text composed in 1136 by Shrichandra that includes Jain ideas about the structure of the universe and the mapping of space. The manuscript, made in the eighteenth century, includes illustrations and ...
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Samgrahanisutra or Samgrahaniratna; Trailokya dipi
Rajasathan, 18th Century
A complete illustrated manuscript of the Samgrahanisutra or Sangrahanisutra, a Jain cosmographical text in Sanskrit composed in A.D.1136 by Shrichandra Muni, whose name appears on f.52 of this copy. The work is also name...
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Article:
A History of Zero
By J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Extract:
One of the commonest questions which the readers of this archive ask is: Who discovered zero? Why then have we not written an article on zero as on...
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All for Nought
By accident, it records the oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a definite date..
By Bill Casselman
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
What the Gwalior tablet shows is that by 876 A. D. our current place-value system with a base of 10 had become part o...
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