. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . nces from Arabia and Greece. Heholds that the mathematical works of Aryabhata, of the fifthcentury, and those of the celebrated Brahmagupta, of the sev- * Megasthenes, Fragmenta (Ed. Diclot), in Fragm. Histor. Grsec, vol. ii.,p. 426b. f Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian, Calcutta, 1877,pp. 42 ff. j Le Bon, Les Civilisations de lInde, p. 548. THE FIRST EUROPEANS /A INDIA. 29 enth century, are only borrowings from Greece.* Bui we regret that this author does not furnish his proof. We are compelledto hold, for example,
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . nces from Arabia and Greece. Heholds that the mathematical works of Aryabhata, of the fifthcentury, and those of the celebrated Brahmagupta, of the sev- * Megasthenes, Fragmenta (Ed. Diclot), in Fragm. Histor. Grsec, vol. ii.,p. 426b. f Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian, Calcutta, 1877,pp. 42 ff. j Le Bon, Les Civilisations de lInde, p. 548. THE FIRST EUROPEANS /A INDIA. 29 enth century, are only borrowings from Greece.* Bui we regret that this author does not furnish his proof. We are compelledto hold, for example, that the Hindus originated instruction byapologues, and the decimal notation by nine digits and says that in algebra the Greeks were behind theHindus. The early Hindus knew that the square of the hy-pothenuse of the triangle is equal to the squares of the Bidescontaining the right angle. They divided the circumference ofthe circle into three hundred and sixty equal parts, and eachinto sixty others, which is the same as our division into di. CA RPET -WEA VIXG. minutes, and seconds. The Hindus conceived the year to con-sist of three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, thirty min-utes, and forty seconds. This division differs only 1 ,?:,„ fromthe new solar tables of Abu Fazl declares thai thearts and sciences of his country were three hundred in was cultivated with rare skill and bucc< The science of medicine was carried to a high degree. The Hindulegends say that one of the fourteen precious ratnas, or precious # Les Civilisations de lInde, p. 549. t Royle, Lecture XL, On Arts and Manufactures of India. p 30 INDIRA. things which the gods are believed to have produced by churn-ing the ocean with the mountain Mandaran, was a learned phy-sician. Even the way in which the Hindus met Alexanderwhen he invaded their country, proves their advancement inthe art of war. They led against him a disciplined army ofthirty thousand infantry,
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