Contents: 1. Inaugural address/Dilip Kumar Sinha. 2. Presidential address/Vibha Tripathi. 3. Konarak : the eastern Heliopolis/R. Balakrishnan. 4. Irrigation system in Tamilnadu/S. Rajavelu. 5. Neolithic culture of Allahabad District/Amit Prakash Mishra. 6. Brick making technique in ancient India/Nidhi Pandey. 7. Community life during Mesolithic age in India/Nelima Pandey. 8. Beads and seals from Kotalingala/D. Raja Reddy and T. Devendar Rao. 9. A note on the identification of Asni/D.P. Dubey. 10. Pleistocene human settlements in Allahabad Region/Ram Krishan Pandey. 11. Exposition and practice of the Arthasastra ideals in early medieval Orissa/Subrata Kumar Acharya. 12. Traces of scientific thought in Upanishads/A.K. Sinha. 13. Discrete mathematics in Chitrastabaka from Lakshmi Sahasram of Venkatadhvari/N. Leelavathy and N. Pankaja. 14. History to Ayurveda in the epics/Modh. Naseem. 15. Indigenous weaving techniques in silk industry : the ancient scientific and technological knowledge of India/Adya Prasad Pandey. 16. A technical assessment of ancient Indian rock cut architecture/Preetu Sharma. 17. Land grants and charity endowments from the Thane-Konkan - a study (1000-1300 A.D.)/Anuradha K. Ranade. 18. Women's property rights in ancient Tamil Society/T.S. Rajeshwari. 19. Trade and economy as reflected in the coinage of the Pallavas/C.R. Gayathri and R. Harini. 20. Houses of common men during Vijayanagara period materials used, techniques applied and styles of construction/Priya Thakur. 21. Jain Bronzes from Baraso, District Bhind, Madhya Pradesh/Navneet Kumar Jain. 22. Socio-religious study of the Kol Tribe from Ethnoarchaeological perspective : a case study of Allahabad region/Sushma Srivastava. 23. Urbanization in a new Perspective/Vandana Verma. 24. The Persian translations of Sanskrit Text and Persian sources of ancient history of Hindustan (India, Inde and Indo)/S. Farrukh Jlali. 25. Janapada-Gajipur/Harindra Prasad Ram. 26. Jaunpur Janapada ka Puratatvika Adhyayana/Pravin Kumar Mishra. 27. Guptakalina Mritika Kala evam Takaniki/Syamali Sinha. 28. Art and architecture of Mauryan period on the basis of Allahabad Pillar/D.P. Sharma. 29. Lord Narasimha through hexadecimal numbers in Kamasikashtakam/N. Kannan. 30. Scripts employed in Kanchipuram inscriptions/M.D. Sampath. 31. The position of women in Tamil Nadu during the Chola period/V. Palanichamy. 32. Astronomical significance behind making grants/V. Ramamani. 33. Focus on Kolaramma Temple, Kolar/Jayalakshmi Yegnaswamy. 34. The Goddess Lakshmi/Bhashyam Swamy. 35. Ancient coding theory and chronograms in inscriptions/N.R. Jayashree and N. Pankaja. 36. Brahmi scripts/M.D. Sampath. 37. Application of geoinformatics in natural resource with special reference to Tirunelveli District/M. Sivajothi. 38. Mercantile trade activities in Salem centre/S. Kayarkanni. 39. Tirumuruganpundi inscriptions/A. Suganeswari. 40. Rights and privileges of temple women/S. Saroja. 41. An ancient art into modern diagnosis by sniffing/M. Subadra. 42. Archaeological remains of Keladi village/G.V. Kallapura. 43. Ancient Indian metallurgy : analysis of Adichchanallur alloys/T. Satyamurthy, B. Sasisekharan and B. Raghunatha Rao. 44. Some sacred geographical names appearing on coins of early foreign rulers of India/Samaresh Bandyopadhyay. 45. Vaishnavaite centres on the bank of Tambraparani river : a socio-cultural approach/S. Saroja. 46. Cordial relations between the Valangai and Idangai classes during Vijayanagara period in Tamil Nadu/O. Anandavalli.
"This volume includes the articles presented on the occasion of the Third National Conference on Ancient Sciences and Archaeology held from 30th to 31st October, 2007 at Allahabad Museum, Allahabad. Scholars from different parts of the country took part in the academic deliberations and presented papers on various topics of ancient sciences and archaeology. It was aimed at the interactions of the scholars on different issues and the recent researches done in the field of archaeology, ancient mathematics, ancient physics, archaeological chemistry, ancient medicine, ancient metallurgy, ancient engineering, ancient biology, ancient economics and commerce, epigraphy, history, numismatics, Onomastics, computer analysis of ancient data, science in Vedic literature, Sanskrit and other languages, literature, etc.
