Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India

Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India
Author: Saraju Rath
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012-07-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004219005

This volume deals with South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts, predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries, and their role in a manuscript culture that had a significant impact on Indian intellectual history for around two millennia.

Sanskrit Astronomical Tables

Sanskrit Astronomical Tables
Author: Clemency Montelle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319970372

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.