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Commentary and elaboration on vedas and description of religious procedures. 900-500 BCE [ 2] Upanishads. Philosophy in response to Vedas and Brahmanas. There are 108 Upnishads, among which 13 are considered the principal ones. 800-400 BCE [ 2] Vedanta. Later commentary on the Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads.
Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna ( Sanskrit: नागार्जुन/ Nāgārjuna) ( c. 150 – c. 250 CE) was an Indian monk and Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. [ 2] He is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers. [ 3] Jan Westerhoff considers him to be "one of the greatest ...
Arthashastra Books 2.10, 6-7, 10 A notable structure of the treatise is that while all chapters are primarily prose, each transitions into a poetic verse towards its end, as a marker, a style that is found in many ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts where the changing poetic meter or style of writing is used as a syntax code to silently signal that the chapter or section is ending. All 150 chapters ...
1881. The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near Peshawar in present-day Pakistan, historical Gandhara ). It is perhaps "the oldest extant manuscript in Indian mathematics ". [ 4] For some portions a carbon-date was proposed of AD 224 ...
The following is a list of ancient Indian writers, originating from the Indian subcontinent. Many writers contributed to the large body of early Indian literature (here roughly taken to predate the 13th century Delhi Sultanate), consisting of poetry, drama, and writings on religion, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics and many other topics.
Megasthenes ( / mɪˈɡæsθɪniːz / mi-GAS-thi-neez; Ancient Greek: Μεγασθένης, died c. 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indica, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors ...
Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, [1] alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. [2] A problem from the Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya. Written in the 12th century.
History of India. Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.