The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine February 1910

Ray has traced the history of Chemistry in India from the pre-Buddhist times down to the middle of the 16th century A. D. He has divided the whole period under four divisions of time namely (1) the Ayiirvedic (2) the Transitional '(3) the Tantric and (4) the latro-chemical periods ; the first extending from the pre-Buddhist era to the 9th century A. D. the second from the 9th to the 12th cent [...] Ray in the department of scientific history have borne abundant fruit in the discovery of documents which no amount of cavilling may reject or repudiate and which get() show that the development 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 "22 THE DAWN AND DAWN SOCIETY'S [...] 67-74 on the Relation between the Southern India and the Straits Settlements in the July 1901 number of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Straits Settlements Branch ). Evidences of the stupendous Hinduisation of the island are to be found on the site of the capital of the old Hindu Empire in Java known as Prambanam (or Brambanam—Fergusson) which is situated in the district of Metarem [...] The subject of the two slab§ on the right seems to be the first meeting of Rama with the vulture king Jatayu who warned him of the demons of the forest and their vile enchantments and of the perils which beset Rama's wife; the lovely Sita when the brothers were hunting.' ( Ibid p. 135). [...] (D) Nor is this evidence of the stupendous influence of Indian civilisation in the island of Java confined to the Buddhist temple at Borobuder or the Hindu "Thousand Temples" at Prambanam the old capital of the Hindu Empire in the centre of the island.