Trübner's Oriental Series


KITAB AL-HIND

(On India)

or

Taḥqīq mā li-l-hind min maqūlah maqbūlah fī al-ʿaql aw mardhūlah
(Verifying All That the Indians Recount, the Reasonable and the Unreasonable)

by

al-Biruni
Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī


An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature,
Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs
Laws and Astrology of India (ca.1030 CE)


translated by

Edward C. Sachau



TWO VOLUMES



Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
London • 1910 [1884]
Dedicated
to

CHARLES SCHEFER
Membre de l'Institut, Paris

as
a homage both to
the man and the scholar

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