ABSTRACT

This is Volume IX of eleven in a collection of India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1910, this is the first part of an account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of Alberuni's India about A.D. 1030.

chapter |8 pages

Table of Contents.

chapter II|6 pages

On the Belift of the Hindus in God.

chapter XIII|17 pages

Their Grammatical and Metrical Literature.

chapter XX|7 pages

On the Brahmanda.

chapter XXII|4 pages

Traditions Relating to the Pole.

chapter XXVIII|5 pages

on the Definition of the ten Directions.

chapter XXX|5 pages

On Lanka, or the Cupola of the Earth.

chapter XXXV|7 pages

On the Different Kinds of Months and Years.

chapter XXXVI|3 pages

On the Four Measures of Time Called Mana.

chapter XXXVII|3 pages

On the Parts of the Month and the Year.

chapter XLIV|3 pages

On the Manvantars.

chapter XLV|6 pages

On the Constellation of the Great Bear.

chapter XLVII|7 pages

On Vasudeva and the Wars of the Bharata.

chapter XLVIII|2 pages

An Explanation of the Measure of an Adshauhini.