The Book of Documents (Shujing, earlier Shu-king) or Classic of History, also known as the Shangshu, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose a ...
The chapter can be divided into two parts. The first describes the nine provinces of Ji (冀), Yan (兗), Qing (青), Xu (徐), Yang (揚), Jing (荊), Yu (豫), Liang (梁), and Yong (雍), with the improveme ...
Towards the end of the Warring States period, the Qin state became disproportionately powerful compared to the other six states. As a result, the policies of the six states became overwhelmingly orien ...
The political geography of the era was dominated by the Seven Warring States, namely:Qin: The State of Qin was in the far west, with its core in the Wei River Valley and Guanzhong. This geographical p ...
Warring StatesSeven Qin State maps dated to the 4th century BC are found in Gansu province in 1986Crown Prince Dan of Yan and Jing Ke's assassination plot against Qin Shi Huang in 227 BC, first refere ...
He was born in the outer district of Kath, the capital of the Afrighid dynasty of Khwarezm (or Chorasmia). The word Biruni means "from the outer-district" in Persian, and so this became his nisba: "al ...
The text is written in Sanskrit and divided into four sections, covering a total of 121 verses that describe different results using a mnemonic style typical for such works in India.1. Gitikapada: (13 ...
While there is a tendency to misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" by analogy with other names having the "bhatta" suffix, his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells his name t ...
Varahamihira's main work is the book Pa?casiddhāntikā (or Pancha-Siddhantika, " on the Five Canons) dated ca. 575 CE gives us information about older Indian texts which are now lost. The work is a ...
Chanakya was born in a Brahmin house. Chanakya's birthplace is a matter of controversy, and there are multiple theories about his origin. According to the Buddhist text Mahavamsa Tika, his birthplace ...
The author of the Arthashastra refers to himself as 'Kautilya', while the last verse mentions the name 'Vishnugupta'. Many scholars believe that the former was the gotra of the author, while the latte ...
Raised as a Christian Methodist in Montana, Eck later embraced Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist beliefs about spirituality and now she describes her religious ideals as "interfaith" infrastructures. She has ...
Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata, is traditionally considered the compiler of the Puranas.The date of the production of the written texts does not define the date of origin of the Puranas. On on ...
The Tabula Peutingeriana is the only known surviving map of the Roman cursus publicus; it was made by a monk in Colmar in the 13th century. It is a parchment scroll, 0.34 m high and 6.75 m long, assem ...
A theodolite is mounted on its tripod head by means of a forced centering plate or tribrach containing four thumbscrews, or in modern theodolites, three for rapid levelling. Before use, a theodolite m ...
