Learning with Spheres: The Golādhyāya in Nityānanda's Sarvasiddhāntarāja

ISBN-13: 9781138583573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 360 str.

Anuj Misra

Opis

This book provides a critical edition and an English translation of the chapter on spheres (golādhyāya) from Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Suitable for those studying and interested  in the history of non-western astral sciences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, 1.1 Indian astronomy: a brief overview, 1.2 The Sarvasiddhāntarāja, ‘The King of all siddhāntas’, 1.3 The Golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, 2. Manuscript Sources and Stemma, 2.1 Catalogues, holding institutions, and manuscript sigla, 2.2 Metadata, structure, and content of the manuscripts, 2.3 Stemma of the manuscript witnesses, 2.4 Editorial Notes, 3 Critical Edition, 4 Edited Sanskrit text and its English translation , 5 Critical Notes and Technical Analyses, A Nityānanda’s geodetic method vis-à-vis al-Bīrūnī’s method to calculate the Earth’s radius, B The cosmography of the Purāṇas, C Numbering of verses in the critical edition vis-à-vis the eight manuscripts of the golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja.