The Sanskrit astronomical table text Brahmatulyasāraṇī : numerical tables in textual scholarship /

The Sanskrit astronomical table text Brahmatulyasāraṇī : numerical tables in textual scholarship /

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Author / Creator:Misra, Anuj, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Time, astronomy, and calendars, 2211-632X ; volume 9
Subject:
Hindu astronomy.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy -- India -- History.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Astronomy
Astronomy, Ancient
Hindu astronomy
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
India
History
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13542388
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Other authors / contributors:Montelle, Clemency, author.
Plofker, Kim, 1964- author.
ISBN:9004432221
9789004432222
9789004431416
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"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"--
Other form:Print version: Misra, Anuj. Sanskrit astronomical table text Brahmatulyasāraṇī. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020 9789004431416
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Critical Editing and Numerical Tables
  • 1.2. Textual Scholarship Applied to Table Texts: The State of the Field
  • 1.2.1. Akkadian
  • 1.2.2. Greek
  • 1.2.3. Chinese
  • 1.2.4. Arabic/Persian
  • 1.2.5. Latin
  • 1.2.6. Sanskrit
  • 1.3. Critical Editing and the Sanskrit Text Corpus
  • Chapter 2. Overview of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī and Its Manuscripts
  • 2.1. The Brahmatulyasāraṇī: Background and Approach
  • 2.2. Manuscript Witnesses to the Brahmatulyasāraṇī
  • 2.3. Colophon and Post-colophon Material from the Manuscripts
  • Chapter 3. Technical Analysis of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī
  • 3.1. Overview of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī and Its Tables
  • 3.2. Accumulated Civil Days (ahargaṇa) since Epoch
  • Mean Longitudes
  • 3.2.1. Computation of the ahargaṇa or Time since Epoch
  • 3.2.2. Planetary Epoch Mean Longitudes and Mean Longitude Increments since Epoch
  • 3.3. Local and Secular Adjustments to Mean Longitudes
  • 3.3.1. The Longitudinal-Difference Correction or deśāntara
  • 3.3.2. The Annual Correction or abdabīja
  • 3.3.4. The deśāntara and rāmabīja Corrections and Apogee Longitudes in MS Kh
  • 3.4. Computation and Application of the manda-Equation to Mean Longitude and Velocity for the Seven Planets
  • 3.5. Computation and Application of the śīghra-Equation for the Five Planets
  • Completion of True Longitude and Velocity Corrections
  • 3.5.1. The śīghra-Correction to manda-Corrected Longitude
  • Iteration of Corrections
  • 3.5.2. Using the śīghra-Equation Tables to Correct Planetary Velocity
  • Iteration of Corrections
  • 3.5.3. Using the śīghra-Anomaly of Mars to Correct Its manda-Apogee
  • 3.6. Corrections due to the Sun's Position
  • 3.6.1. Rising-Difference or udayāntara Corrections for the Sun and Moon
  • 3.6.2. Solar Declination
  • Chapter 4. Variation in Manuscripts of Brahmatulyasāraṇī Tables
  • 4.1. Tables and Their Organisation
  • 4.1.1. Elements of the Table Set
  • 4.1.2. Ordering of the Table Set
  • 4.1.3. Inclusion in the Table Set of Tables from Other Works
  • 4.1.4. Combining Individual Tables
  • 4.1.5. Incomplete Tables
  • 4.1.6. Inclusion or Omission of Secondary Tabulated Functions
  • 4.1.7. Additional or Omitted Table Entries
  • 4.1.8. Modified Epoch Offsets
  • 4.1.9. Numerical Values of Table Entries
  • 4.1.10. Precision of Table Entries
  • 4.2. Paratext
  • 4.2.1. Table Headings/Titles
  • 4.2.2. Row Headers
  • 4.2.3. Column Headers
  • 4.2.4. Table Colophons
  • 4.2.5. Abbreviations/Morphology
  • 4.2.6. Notes and Annotations
  • 4.2.7. Foliation and Running Titles
  • 4.2.8. Language
  • 4.3. Layout
  • 4.3.1. Page Orientation
  • 4.3.2. Breaking and Wrapping Long Tables
  • 4.3.3. Combining Tables in the Same Table Grid
  • 4.3.4. Construction of Table Grids
  • 4.3.5. Decorative Elements
  • 4.4. Representation of Numerical Data

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