Meera, a history student in Delhi, is preparing a project on an eleventh-century scholar from Central Asia. She learns that he was brought as a hostage to the capital of a Sultan who had invaded his homeland, and that he later came to like that city. He studied the languages and texts of the subcontinent, spent years with its learned men, and wrote a long account of its people in Arabic. Her teacher tells her that accounts written by such outsiders are of special value to historians.
For his Brahmana friends, the scholar translated into Sanskrit the works of which Greek thinker?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Euclid
For his Brahmana friends, Al-Biruni translated the works of Euclid, a Greek mathematician, into Sanskrit; he also put Patanjali's work on grammar into Arabic.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.1 From Khwarizm to the Punjab … “… For his Brahmana friends, he translated the works of Euclid (a Greek mathematician) into Sanskrit.” |