The Drug - Book Of Beruni Introduction and review

As I possess also photographs of the Brussa manuscript I was able to compare some articles and I believe that the translator has in several places made additions of his own. cript, claiming to be the same work and I commenced to make a copy shortly before leaving Aligarh in 1930, but did not accomplish my wish and a student who promised to complete the transcript failed to keep his promise. I wanted to make sure that the work of Beruni really con• tained an article on tea and I asked my friend Sayyid Muhammad Badr• ud-Din to copy it for me if it was contained in the Aligarh manuscript. It is, however, certain that the scribe only made an abstract leaving out much of the matter which forms such an important feature of the work of Beruni, As this manuscript, however, contains all the • .