Kitabul Hind

Kitabul Hind - BooK

Alberuni, the great scholar who accopained Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi to India, and researched on the religion and customs of the people of India. He wrote kitabul Hind. or The Book Of India, which was one of the earliest encyclopedias about South Asia and its people . Alberuni even learn Sanskrit to write this book. The Brahmin scholars respected him so much that they called him Vidya Sagar, or the sea of Knowledge.