"In the many centuries, since Toledo, that Western historians have been talking of transmission from the Greeks, who ever produced a Sanskrit manuscript of Ptolemy? Who ever proved that Aryabhata had seen such a Sanskrit manuscript? Yet every Western reference work on the subject asserts that Indian astronomy is transmitted from the Greeks. So is it the case that these reference works are all out of date, and that the standard of evidence for transmission has now changed? Does Owen Gingerich now deny transmission from the Greeks on the grounds that there is no evidence? Not at all; in the very same article he sticks to the entire fairy tale about transmission from the Greeks. So, it is not so much that the standards of evidence have changed, but that there are (even as of today) two simultaneous standards of evidence for transmission. One for transmission to the West, and another for purported transmission from the West. Not only is the judge biased, the very rules of evidence are biased!"
C. K. Raju

January 1, 1970

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