{"product_id":"body-and-cosmos-studies-in-early-indian-medical-and-astral-sciences-in-honor-of-kenneth-g-zysk-9789004436695","title":"Body and Cosmos: Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBody and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysk’s long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology.  The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk.  The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures and Tables  Part 1 Introduction    1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen   Erik Reenberg Sand    2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him   Kamal Sheel    Part 2 History of Medicine    3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Āyurvedic Concept?   Vitus Angermeier    4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasaṃhitā   Philipp Maas    5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā   Cristina Pecchia    6 A New Translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Vimānasthāna, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition   Dominik Wujastyk    7 On the Textual History of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations   Andrey Klebanov    8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasāyana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature   Dagmar Wujastyk    9 Karman, Prāyaścitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipāka Digression in Mādhavācārya’s Parāśaramādhavīya   Mikael Aktor    10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India’s Cities?   Johannes Bronkhorst    11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment   Anthony Cerulli    Part 3 Astral Sciences    12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence   Marko Geslani    13 The Rāmāyaṇa and the Yugas   Luis González-Reimann    14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy   Michio Yano    15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhāskarācārya’s Generation of Sines   Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle    16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy   Kim Plofker    17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts   Saraju Rath    Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time    18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism   Stefan Baums    19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?   Klaus Karttunen    20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Mīnarāja’s Vṛddhayavanajātaka   Bill M. Mak    21 Modern Sāṃkhya: Plurality of Sāṃkhya Traditions in Modern India   Knut A. Jacobsen    The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210806190423,"sku":"9789004436695","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/body-and-cosmos-studies-in-early-indian-medical-and-astral-sciences-in-honor-of-kenneth-g-zysk-9789004436695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}