History of India: ancient and medieval / Guptas, Vakatakas and post-Gupta north India
Science, mathematics and medicine in ancient India
Practise 2 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Aryabhata (499 CE): sine, pi approximation, earth's rotation; place-value and zero
- Brahmagupta (seventh century) on cyclic quadrilaterals and negative numbers; Varahamihira's Panchasiddhantika
- Place-value in inscriptions: Mankani plates (595 CE), Sanskrit inscriptions of South-east Asia (seventh century), general use by the ninth century
- Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita: surgical instruments, plastic surgery; no organ transplantation
- Mehrauli iron pillar, wootz steel, Surya Siddhanta; Nagarjuna's alchemy
Where to study
India’s Ancient Past · R. S. Sharma
- ch. 33
Indian Art and Culture · Nitin Singhania
- ch. 25
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History, Volume I
- Lesson 7 The Guptas, pp. 110-127 (printed 106-123)
- Lesson 7 The Guptas, Gupta Sciences: Mathematics and Astronomy (Aryabhatta, zero and the decimal system), p. 122 (printed 118)
- Lesson 7 The Guptas, Gupta Sciences: Mathematics and Astronomy (Varahamihira, Brahmagupta), pp. 122-123 (printed 118-119)
- Lesson 7 The Guptas, Gupta Sciences: Mathematics and Astronomy (zero and the decimal system), p. 122 (printed 118)
- Lesson 7 The Guptas, Gupta Sciences (medicine), p. 122 (printed 118)
- Lesson 7 The Guptas, Industry: Mining and Metallurgy, p. 118 (printed 114)
Our Pasts I, Class VI, ch. 11 Buildings, Paintings and Books
- ch. 11 Buildings, Paintings and Books, Writing books on science; Zero, p. 10 (printed 123)
- ch. 11 Buildings, Paintings and Books, Zero, p. 10 (printed 123)
- ch. 11 Buildings, Paintings and Books, Ayurveda, p. 10 (printed 123)
- ch. 11 Buildings, Paintings and Books, Marutasami and the iron pillar; The iron pillar; Metallurgy, p. 1 (printed 114)