Dharampal Collected Writings
author: Dharampal
edition: 2016, Other India BookStore
pages: 1835
ISBN-10: 8185569509
ISBN-13: 9788185569505
Topic: History
Bramin's Observatory at Benares (AD 1777)
This chapter describes Bramin's Observatory at Benares (AD 1777) located on page 39 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 ‘Bramin's 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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A Historical Study of Kaushambi [by Nirja Sharma]
The distance of 13 yojanas (about 90 Or 104 miles) is almost the present distance by road from Benares to Kosam. It need not worry us if Fa-Hien placed Kaushambi to the north-west of Benares, for he may have walked by a road following north-west direction over some distance. (The reader must, of course, note that Kosam, which is supposed to be the site of Kaushambi, is about 30 or 31 miles from Allahabad across the fields, 137 or. 138 miles by road, above the Yamuna....
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Jain Remains of Ancient Bengal [by Shubha Majumder]
His father Ashvasena, the king of Benares, gave Parshva in marriage to the daughter of Prasenajit, king of Koshala. But, like Prince Siddhartha, Parshva left the princess to follow the life of an ascetic at 30 years of age. For about 70 years, he preached his doctrines and finally attained Moksha (liberation) on Mt. Summet Shikhara which is now known after him as Giri Parshvanatha Hill in south Bihar (near Dhanbad) (Bhattacharya ibid, Nagar 1999:134-5)....
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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]