Sultan Firoz Shah, author of Fatahat-i-Firoz Shah, an autobiography. Firoz Shah born A.D. 1309. Sur-ul-Baldan, a compilation from Istakhri and Ibn Haukal.
Timur. Malfuzat-i-Timuri, the autobiography of Timur. This is in Persian. It is supposed to have been written originally in Chaghtai Turki, but in that language it has never been found. In the reign of Shah Jahan it was translated into Persian.
Yahya-bin-Abd-ul-Latif, author of the Lubb-ut-Tawa rikh, a general Asiatic chronicle, A.D. 1541. He is also named Ismail-bin-Abdul Latif, also Mir Yahya Husaini Saifi.
Yahya-bin-Ahmad-bin-Abdullah Sirhindi, author of the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Sbahi. He seems to have died about A.D. 1448.
Yamin - ud - Din Muhammad Husain, styled Amir Khusru, born A.D. 1253, died A.D. 1325. He is said to have left behind half a million of verses.
Zahir - ud - Din Muhammad Baber wrote his auto biography, called Tuzak-i-Babari or Wakayat-i Babari, in Turki, and they were translated into Persian in the middle of Akbar's reign.
Zakariya, al-Kazwini, about A.D. 1263 or 1275, author of Asar-ul-Bilad-wa-Akhbar-ul-Ibad, also Ajaib-ul Makhlukat-wa-Gharaib•ul-Maujudat, wonders of things created and marvels of things existing.
Zia-ud-Din, Barni, author of Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi. This is the foundation of Ferishta's history of the period.
b. Buddhist and Hindu authors, chiefly in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Tamil.
Agasti or Agastya, the earliest teacher of the Tamils. Amara Sinha, author of the Amara Kosha Vocabulary. Anandagiri, author of a Sankara Vijaya.
Angirasa, author of hymns in the Rig Veda. Apastamba, author of Sutras connected with the Black Yajur Veda, and of a Dharmasastra, and two recensions of the Taittiriya Sanhita. ' Aryabhata, the earliest Hindu writer on algebra. Asoka, king of Magadha, Buddhist Edicts.
Aswalayana, author of Srana Sutras, Grihya Sutras, and other ritualistic works. Founder of a Sakha of the Rig Veda.
Auvaiyar, the most famed Tamil poetess.
Barthrihari, a celebrated poet and grammarian, who wrote the Sringara-sataka, Nita-sataka, Vairagya sataka, also the Vakya-pndya and the ]lhatti Kavya.
Bharata, a muni, author of the Gandharva Veda, the science of music and song.
liharavi, author of the poem Kiratar Juniya. Ifhaskaracharya, an astronomer and mathematician, about A.D. 1100, author of the Siddhanta Siromani, a chapter on arithmetic, known as tho Lilavati. Bhatta Narayana.
Bliatti, author of the Ilhatti-Kavya.
Bhava Bhuti, author of the Mahn Vira Charita, Uttara Rama Charita, and Malatilhava, about A.D. 800.
Bralunagupta, an astronomer, author of the Brahma Gupta Siddhanta.
Casi Chatty, author of the Tamil Plutarch.
Chaitanya, a Vaishnava reformer, A.D. 1485-1527. Chand, a celebrated poet of Hindustan.
Dakaha, one of the writers of the Dharmasastras. Dandi, or Sri Dandi, author of the Kavya Darsa or 5Iirror of Poetry.
Devi 5Iahatmiya, author of the Chandipatha, an episode of the Markandeya Purana.
Dhanwantari, a physician.
Dya Diviveda, author of the Niti Manjari, a work on ethics.
Gautama, or Akshapada, founder of the Nyaya school of philosophy.
Gopi-natha, author of the Kantuka Sarvaswa, a modern farce.
Critsa Mada, reputed author of many hymns in the second Mandala of the Rig Veda.
Halayudha Bhatta, A.D. 700, author of Abhidana Ratna mala.
Hari Charm Das.
liema Chandra, A.D. 1300, author of Abhidana Chinta mani.
Jaimini, author? of the Sama Vedas and its teacher, founder of the Purva Ilimansa philosophy. Jayadeva, author of the erotic lyric Gita Govinda, about A.D. 1200.
Jimuta Vahana, author of the. Daya Bhaga, law of in heritance.
Kabir, A.D. 1380-1400, a disciple of Ramanand. He was a celebrated Hindu Unitarian, equally revered by Hindus and Muhammadans, founder of the sect called Kabir Panthi or Nanak Panthi, from which Nanak, founder of the Sikhs, borrowedthe religious notions which he propagated with the greatest success. Kabir and other Hindu sectarians used the Hindi language in opposition to the Brahmans, with whom Sanskrit was the language employed.
Kalhana, a pandit of Kashmir, author of the Raja Tarangini.
Kalidasa, author of the dramas Sakuntala, Vikramor vasi, Malavikagni mitra, Raghu-vansa, Meglia dhuta, Kumara Sumbhawa,Nalodaya,Ritu-sanhara, and the Sruta-boatha, a work on prosody.