(“Bardaisan” (Syriac: ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ, Bardaiṣān), also known in Arabic as ابن ديصان (Ibn Daisan), also Latinized as Bardesanes, was a Syriac or Parthian gnostic and founder of the “Bardaisanites”)
(a scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher and poet, Bardaisan was also renowned for his knowledge of ‘India’, on which he wrote a book, now lost)