Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni
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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.
It's mostly readable, though there are quite a few places where the translator calls for more research and this reprint, naturally, doesn't say whether it's been followed up *. In any event, I found this fascinating.
It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month
from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it
drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about
6 years.
5d5 days ago
8mo8 months ago
2yr2 years ago
4yr4 years ago
9yr9 years ago
A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did
not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.