Anuj Misra

Learning with Spheres

The Golādhyāya in Nityānanda's Sarvasiddhāntarāja

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical edition and an English translation of the chapter on spheres (gol¿dhy¿ya) from Nity¿nanda's Sarvasiddh¿ntar¿ja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Suitable for those studying and interested in the history of non-western astral sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781138583573
• ISBN-10: 113858357X
• Artikelnr.: 64104707

Autorenporträt

Anuj Misra is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on medieval and early modern exchanges in Sanskrit astral sciences and includes articles and book chapters on the influence of Islamicate thought in the Sanskrit astronomyof Mughal India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, 1.1 Indian astronomy: a brief overview, 1.2 The Sarvasiddh
ntar
ja, 'The King of all siddh
ntas', 1.3 The Gol
dhy
ya in Nity
nanda's Sarvasiddh
ntar
ja, 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 Nity
nanda's geodetic method vis-à-vis al-B
r
n
's method to calculate the Earth's radius, B The cosmography of the Pur
as, C Numbering of verses in the critical edition vis-à-vis the eight manuscripts of the gol
dhy
ya in Nity
nanda's Sarvasiddh
ntar
ja.