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The Surya-siddhanta, also called the modern Surya-siddhanta, has the largest number of commentators among all the astronomical texts written in India, it has been translated into almost all the regional languages of India. In all Sanskrit Colleges where Jyotisa is included in the curriculum the Surya-siddhanta is followed as a class room text book, and so, plenty of explanatory notes on it, either in manuscript or in printed form are also available now. And so we ...
Tea, coffee and cocoa are the three important non-alcoholic beverages from nature's rich storehouse of plant resources. Of the three, tea is the oldest known and the most popular beverage. This profusely illustrated book, written in an easy-to-understand style, gives an overview of the tea trade especially the role of Indian tea industry in the world tea market. This book also focusses on the history, characteristics of the plant, genetic improvement of the bush, ...
Plant-based raw materials provide us with a wide array of products like food, fats and oils, medicines, fibre and timber. They have been dealt in a scholarly manner in the encyclopaedic series The Wealth of India - Raw Materials, which includes information on about 5000 economic plants. Some of the major articles from this encyclopaedia are now being brought out in a popular book form under the new series entitled 'Encyclopaedia of Natural Wealth of India'. ...