Dharampal Collected Writings
author: Dharampal
edition: 2016, Other India BookStore
pages: 1835
ISBN-10: 8185569509
ISBN-13: 9788185569505
Topic: History
Hints Concerning the Observatory at Benares (cir 1783)
This chapter describes Hints Concerning the Observatory at Benares (cir 1783) located on page 94 from volume 1 in the book Dharampal Collected Writings compiled by Dharampal. This book presents a fresh perspective on the Indian Science and Technology in the 18th century. The collected writings include accounts of various technical processes and practices documented by western travelers in the period when they started coming to India..
The first volume deals with India Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century.
Examples of topics dealt with (besides ‘Hints Concerning the Observatory at Benares’) in Dharampal’s collected papers are: the Indian sciences such as astronomy, plastic surgery, inoculation techniques, irrigation, agriculture, algebra, geometry, etc.
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Triveni Journal
To people here, especially those at the Observatory, are very kind and considerate to me, and that helps me a great deal, for I miss Cambridge. One always misses something. In any case, at Cambridge–one does not miss Cambridge!” He leaves Harvard on 7th march for the Yerkes Observatory of the Chicago University where again he delivers a course of lectures....
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Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh (early history) [by Prakash Narayan]
The discouragement and reluctance shown by the bramanical law-books concerning direct encouragement to lending money on interest was strengthened by Buddhism. Some Buddhist teachings arising in the Inna sutta hint that poverty and indebtedness are not desirable. Both poverty and borrowing are the causes of misery since a poor person having incurred debt lives in it in suffering....
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Sripura (Archaeological Survey) [by Bikash Chandra Pradhan]
I Kadamba record of cir Aa. D. 500 starts with the adoration of Bhagavat with Sri on His breast and Brahma on i lotus stretched by i long stalk from His navel (Sircar, D. C. , style="text-align:center">The Successors of the Satavahanas, p. 292 fn. , Calcutta, 1939)....
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[Dharampal Collected Writings: index]
[Volume 1: Preface]
[Volume 2: About the Book]
[Volume 2: Foreword]
[Volume 3: About the Book]
[Volume 3: Introduction]
[Volume 4: About the Book]
[Volume 4: Preface]
[Volume 5: About the Book]