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Henry Thomas Colebrooke, 1817, Algebra with Arithmetic and Mesuration from the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bháscara, London: Joh ...

David Pingree, 1970–94,Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, ser. A, vols. 1–5, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society ...

CHAPTER 18 Calendar, Astrology, and Astronomy Michio Yano Another title of this chapter could be jyotih.s ́a ̄stra, or “science ...

The following quotation is from the R.gvedic recension: The Vedas advanced for the sake of sacrificial rituals. And the sacrific ...

With our interpretation it follows that 62 synodic months =1,830 days, i.e., 1 synodic month ª29.515 days. Since this value is n ...

2300 bc. This is one of the reasons that some people claim the high antiquity and originality of Indian astronomy. There is also ...

3 Nine Grahas 3.1Grahasin medical texts Most Hindu temples have a shrine which contains the images ofnavagraha, i.e. nine planet ...

dental or not is yet to be investigated. That the grahain some other contexts in medical texts can be properly interpreted as a ...

Vedic poets. In fact a demon called Svarbha ̄nu in the R.gveda5.40.5 seems to have been regarded as the cause of eclipses. This ...

TheModengqie Jing, one of the Chinese translations of the S ́a ̄rdu ̄ lakarn.a ̄vada ̄na, adds in this context Ra ̄hu and comets ...

Thus all the passages in Sanskrit texts which describe planets in the week-day order should be dated later than the end of the t ...

Mes.asam.kra ̄nti, which was originally equivalent to the vernal equinox, now falls on around April 14. This also explains the d ...

Vr.s.asam.kra ̄nti, etc. For the sake of the reader’s convenience the approximate date ofsam.kra ̄ntisin the modern calendar is ...

Omitted day (ks.ayadina) Since the average length of a synodic month is about 29.5 days, a month in a lunar calendar consists of ...

yogais based on the “sum” of the longitude of the Sun and the Moon. The present author has written a computer program for pañca ...

Pre-Ptolemaic system What is to be stressed here is that the Greek astronomy transmitted to India was not the system of Ptolemy ...

390 michio yano These numbers are good enough to prepare a calendar. This is why there still survive some traditional calendars ...

The “rotations of the fixed stars” in this table is the “rotations of the earth on its axis” according to A ̄ryabhat.a, because ...

References Chatterjee, S. K. 1998. Indian Calendric System. New Delhi. Dvivedin, S., ed. 1907. A ̄rcajyautis.am33.The PANDIT, ne ...

CHAPTER 19 The Science of Medicine Dominik Wujastyk The Beginnings of Medical Science Indian medicine, as a systematic and schol ...