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With reference to Al-Biruni, consider the following:

1. He travelled to the South Asia and authored a study of Indian culture.

2. Mahmud Ghazni entrusted the writing of Kitab-al Hind to Al-Biruni.

3. He was given the title "founder of Indology".

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Statement 1: In 1017 he travelled to the South Asia and authored a study of Indian culture (Tahqiq ma li-l-hind) after exploring the Hinduism practised in India.
Statement 2: Much of the wealth Mahmud carried away was used to create a splendid capital city at Ghazni.He was interested in finding out more about the people he conquered, and entrusted a scholar named al-Biruni to write an account of the subcontinent.This Arabic work, known as the Kitab-al Hind, remains an important source for historians. He consulted Sanskrit scholars to prepare this account.
Statement 3: Al-Biruni is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic era and was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist.Al-Biruni contributed to the introduction of the experimental scientific method to mechanics, unified statics and dynamics into the science of mechanics, and combined the fields of hydrostatics with dynamics to create hydrodynamics.He came up with different methods for exploring densities, weight, and even gravity.