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Book SynopsisThe 17th-century Brahmatulyasāraṇī is a rich repository of information about Indian mathematical astronomy and its genres of scientific writing in Sanskrit. This painstaking critical edition, translation, and technical analysis of the work includes detailed technical background about its content and relation to the seminal 12th-century astronomical handbook Karaṇakutūhala. This book explores important contextual information about the role and study of numerical tables in pre-modern astronomy, as well as the many challenges arising from critically editing numerical data in the Indian astral sciences.
Table of Contents1 Introduction 1.1 Critical Editing and Numerical Tables 1.2 Textual Scholarship Applied to Table Texts: The State of The Field 1.3 Critical Editing and the Sanskrit Text Corpus 2 Overview of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī and Its Manuscripts 2.1 The Brahmatulyasāraṇī: Background and Approach 2.2 Manuscript Witnesses to the Brahmatulyasāraṇī 2.3 Colophon and Post-colophon Material from the Manuscripts 3 Technical Analysis of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī 3.1 Overview of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī and Its Tables 3.2 Accumulated Civil Days (ahargaṇa) since Epoch; Mean Longitudes 3.3 Local and Secular Adjustments to Mean Longitudes 3.4 Computation and Application of the manda-Equation to Mean Longitude and Velocity for the Seven Planets 3.5 Computation and Application of the śīghra-Equation for the Five Planets; Completion of True Longitude and Velocity Corrections 3.6 Corrections due to the Sun’s Position 4 Variation in Manuscripts of Brahmatulyasāraṇī Tables 4.1 Tables and Their Organisation 4.2 Paratext 4.3 Layout 4.4 Representation of Numerical Data 5 Framework and Features of the Critical Edition 5.1 Typographic Conventions 5.2 Editing Problems and Editorial Choices for the Tables 5.3 Intrinsic Structure of the Edited Tables 6 Critical Edition of Versified Text and Tables 6.1 Critical Edition of the Verses 6.2 Critical Edition of the Tables 7 Appendix: Sanskrit Astronomy and the Karaṇakutūhala References Index
