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In Part I we furnished sufficient quotes to establish the proposition that throughout the ancient as well as the medieval eras Mediterranean, Arab and European savants went to great length to acknowledge the contribution of the Indics in various fields such as number theory, geometry ,astronomy, and medicine. It was only in the colonial era beginning with the discovery of Sir William Jones of the antiquity of Sanskrit, which had far reaching implications on the roots of their own civilization, that racial prejudice towards the Indics took on a dominant role and began to affect the quality as well as the accuracy of the scholarship in Europe.We continue the narrative here.
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Uncovering the scope of Ancient Indian Mathematics faces a twofold difficulty. To determine who discovered what we must have an accurate idea of the chronology of Ancient India . This has been made doubly difficult by the faulty dating of Indian Historical events by Sir William Jones, who practically invented the fields of linguistics and philology if for a moment we discount the contributions of Panini (Ashtadhyayi)and Yaska (Nirukta) a couple of millennia before him . Sir William, who was reputed to be an accomplished linguist, was nevertheless totally ignorant of Sanskrit when he arrived in India and proceeded in short order to decipher the entire history of India from his own meager understanding of the language, In the process he brushed aside the conventional history as known and memorized by Sanskrit pundits for hundreds of years and as recorded in the Puranas and invented a brand new timeline for India which was not only egregiously wrong but hopelessly scrambled up the sequence of events and personalities. See for instance my chronicle on the extent of the damage caused by Sir William and his cohorts in my essay on the South Asia File . ...
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