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Vedic cosmography and astronomy
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ISBN: 0892132698 9780892132690 Year: 1989 Publisher: Los Angeles (Calif.): Bhaktivedanta book trust,


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The Sanskrit astronomical table text Brahmatulyasāraṇī
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ISBN: 9004432221 9004431411 9789004432222 9789004431416 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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"The 17th-century Brahmatulyasāraṇīis a rich repository of information about Indian mathematical astronomy and its genres of scientific writing in Sanskrit. This painstaking critical edition, translation, and technical analysis of the work includes detailed technical background about its content and relation to the seminal 12th-century astronomical handbook Karaṇakutūhala. This book explores important contextual information about the role and study of numerical tables in pre-modern astronomy, as well as the many challenges arising from critically editing numerical data in the Indian astral sciences"--


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History of oriental astronomy : proceedings of an International Astronomical Union colloquium no 91, New Delhi, 13-16 November 1985
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ISBN: 0521346592 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York Melbourne Sydney Cambridge University Press

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History of oriental astronomy : proceedings of an International astronomical union colloquium no. 91, New Delhi, India, 13-16 November 1985
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ISBN: 0521346592 9780521346597 Year: 1987 Publisher: Cambridge: University press,


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Jyotiḥśāstra : astral and mathematical literature
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ISBN: 3447021659 9783447021654 Year: 1981 Volume: 4 Publisher: Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,

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Karaṇapaddhati of Putumana Somayājī
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ISBN: 9811068143 9811068135 Year: 2018 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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Karaṇapaddhati of Putumana Somayājī is an important text of the Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics, probably composed in the 16th century. In the Indian astronomical tradition, the karaṇa texts are essentially computational manuals and they often display a high level of ingenuity in coming up with simplified algorithms for computing planetary longitudes and other related quantities. Karaṇapaddhati, however, is not a karaṇa text. Rather, it discusses the paddhati or the rationale for arriving at suitable algorithms that are needed while preparing a karaṇa text for a given epoch. Thus the work is addressed not to the almanac maker but to the manual maker. Karaṇapaddhati presents the theoretical basis for the vākya system, where the true longitudes of the planet are calculated directly by making use of certain auxiliary notions such as the khaṇḍa, maṇḍala and dhruva along with tabulated values of changes in the true longitude over certain regular intervals which are expressed in the form vākyas or mnemonic phrases. The text also discusses the method of vallyupasaṃhāra which is essentially a technique of continued fraction expansion for obtaining optimal approximations to the rates of motion of planets and their anomalies, involving ratios of smaller numbers. It also presents a new fast convergent series for π which is not mentioned in the earlier works of the Kerala School. As this is a unique text presenting the rationale behind the vākya system and the computational procedures used in the karaṇa texts, it would serve as a useful companion for all those interested in the history of astronomy. The authors have provided a translation of the text followed by detailed notes which explain all the computational procedures, along with their rationale, by means of diagrams and equations.


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Sanskrit Astronomical Tables
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ISBN: 3319970372 3319970364 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern astronomy. It then discusses the primary mathematical astronomy content of table texts and the attempted taxonomy of this genre before diving into the broad outlines of their representation in the Sanskrit scientific manuscript corpus. Finally, the authors survey the major categories of individual tables compiled in these texts, complete with brief analyses of some of the methods for constructing and using them, and then chronicle the evolution of the table-text genre and the impacts of its changing role on the discipline of Sanskrit jyotiṣa. There are also three appendices: one inventories all the identified individual works in the genre currently known to the authors; one provides reference information about the details of all the notational, calendric, astronomical, and other classification systems invoked in the study; and one serves as a glossary of the relevant Sanskrit terms.


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Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology
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ISBN: 9811569037 9811569029 Year: 2020 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures. Archaeoastronomy is a branch of positional astronomy that helps to determine the epochs of ancient astronomical alignments and special astronomical events. In this book, only the descriptions of special stellar alignments and events found in ancient texts can identify the antiquity of the descriptions. India possesses a large volume of ancient scriptures like Vedas and Puranas which contain many astronomical descriptions as in ancient India positional astronomy was well developed. The antiquities of these texts are determined through archaeoastronomical techniques. Major events like Mahabharata War are dated and using these dates a chronology of ancient India is determined. The astronomically determined chronology is compared with the results from various archaeological, palaeoclimatological, geological and genealogical investigations of ancient India. This introductory book interests readers interested in unveiling the mystery involved with the protohistory of this ancient civilization.

Catalogue of jyotisa manuscripts in the Wellcome Library : Sanskrit astral and mathematical literature
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ISBN: 9004131523 9047412699 Year: 2004 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston Brill

A descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh II Museum in Jaipur, India
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ISBN: 0871692503 9780871692504 Year: 2003 Volume: 250 Publisher: Philadelphia: American philosophical society,

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