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As usual, some of our foreign critics have been telling us that the knowledge by the earlier Hindu medical writers Charaka and Susrata for instance, must ve been borrowed knowledge; for, how could, India in those ancient days aspire to a knowledge which has conie to the European through the 'ow growth of the centuries? Thus, Mons. Berthel. the French savant, to whom Dr. Ray wed indeed, his inspiration in his histical investigations into Indian Chemistry,was so much struck with the origina ity of the Hindu process of preparing canstic olkali as given in the Nusrutu Samhita, that he went so far as to suggest that
sophy too accepts the doctrine in Hindifled forun. It is only out-and-out Matorialists like the Charvickas that question edit. There was therefore
that portion of Susruta was modern, and adduced by h'in have been accepted by sion for our philosophors spending time
little Occa
in fact, a later addition derived from contact with European chemists. But, thanks to the labours of Dr. Ray, the indegenous character of the origin and
scholars and savants. And we have seen also, that the Hindu Tantric chemical works were only a development of the Buddhist Tantric works on the subject
growth of Hindu Chemistry has been And lastly, not only in the departmental passages here and there in Hinda
philosophical work-passages which are apparently directed against the hereturs just mentioned. For instance, in his
of Inorganic Chemistry but also in Organic Chemistry, the Hindus had made an advanca, and Principal B. N. Seal of the Cooch Behar College, Bengal, in an independent section which is incorporated in Dr. Ray's History has given an account of the constitution of the fits and oils and the organic face. He has also briefly noticed the chief chemical industries of the Hindus which secured for them an easy preeminence in in manufactures for a thousand years; and has unearthed souse interesting Hindu reipin relating to matters of chemical technology, e g. sear ing of hard rocks to enable them to or pulverised; hardening of steel, ent or of cements for rock's metals etc."
firmly established. A whole chapter has been devoted to a consideration of the indigenous sources of Indian Chemistry: and Dr. Ray has been able to produce a 1359 evidence in support of that posi
tion.
Thus to refute Pruf, Berth lot, with special reference to the question of the Hindu process of preparing caustic alkali, Dr. Ray mentions two other Hindu medical writers, Vaghhata nub (hak rapani Datta, both of whom lived before the 11th centu A.D. and both of whom century refer the particular chemical process described by Suuts. Another indepen dent piece of evidence cited by the Doctor is the fact that canatic alkali was used for the cauterization of bad wounds, 1 in the "questions of King as mentioned in the Milinds, who furisired in the second century BC." Ant in various other ways" the the Doctor has established the claim of the originality of the Hindus and has shown that, far from from borrowing the knowledge of Chemistry from the West, the Hindus were rather the teachers of who in their helped to spread it in Europe. The comparatively modern dates of Hindu Taxtrie works on ('hemistry, together with the fact that the Moors runde great progress in alchemy and medicine in a previous period of history, suggested the idea to the minds of many scholars that the Hindus were largely indebted to the Moors for their chemical knowledge as displayed in their works. But the theory of borrow. ing from the Moors, although plausible, has been completely knocked on the head by D. Ray who has shews that in the
the Arabians (the "Moon) who in
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Middle Ages of about the time of the Mahomedan invasion of India, the Hindas far from remaining behind the Araba and the Wosterns ware, in their know ledge of chemical and metallurgical procosa, far ahead of their contemporaries in other parts of the world. Also, it is acknowledged on all hauds that the great Buddhist patriarch to whom we have so often referred Siddha Nagarjuna as he was called of tho second century A. D. was the discoverer of the chemical pro-sophy agree in thinking of the soul as cesses of distillation, sublimation, etc, not only immortal, but also as sternal. And lastly, the grand role played by The heterodox school of Buddhist PhiloBuddhist monks in the development of the chemical science has been indisputably established by Dr. Ray and the proofs
REFUTATION OF MATERIALISM. In Hindu Philosophy one minnes the elaborate and long-drawn argumenta for the inmortality of the soul which forais prominent feature of the philosophical Theology of Europe. The explanation of this is no doubt to be found in the general unanimity of Hindu philosophers as regards the doctrine in question. All the six orthodox schools of Hindu f'hilo
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Thus, the labours Dr. Ray in the department of scientific history have borne abundant fruit in the die covery of documents which no amount. of cavilling may reject or repudiate, and which go to show that the develop ment of Hindu Chemistry in ancient India was the outcome of Hindu genius and Hindu originality and of arduous and continuous efforts of Hindu sages in the pursuit of the science.
Dr. Ray had, indeed, rainul India in the estimation of the civilised world by his brilliant chemical discoveries. But his latest achievement his two volumes on the History of Hindu Chemistry, has secured for her a lasting place in the intellectual hierarchy of nations.
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