Pancasiddhantika of Varahamihira
Book Details
Author(s)T.S. Kuppanna Sastry
PublisherP.P.S.T. Foundation
ISBN / ASINB008RYJJFI
ISBN-13978B008RYJJF4
Sales Rank6,544,085
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Language: Sanskrit Text with English Translation and Explanation
Pages: 412
About the Book
K.V. SarmaThe Pancasiddhantika of the sixth century astronomer Varahamihira is a major work on mathematical astronomy of early India, and is particularly significant for the fact that it provides a resume, though uneven, of five astronomical schools, viz., Vasistha, Paitamaha, Romaka, Paulisa and Saura, which flourished in India during the early centuries
of the Christian era. The full texts of all these systems are now lost, which makes the Pancasiddhantika all the more significant. All the available manuscripts of the work go back to a defective original. This makes the full and correct understanding of the work difficult and indefinitive, there being also occasional lacunae and obscure passages. These have, in many places, affected adversely the text and the translations of this work as issued earlier, by G. Thibaut and Sudhakara Dvivedi (Benares, 1889) and by O. Neugebauer and David Pingree (Copenhagen, 1970).
The present Critical edition of the Pancasiddhantika, which makes use of all the available manuscripts of the text as also external testimony, attempts to present a much more perfect text and translation of the work. To the edition has been added an authentic translation of the work with explanatory notes in terms inclusive of modern mathematics, adumbrated by tables and diagrams. Wherever computations are involved, illustrative examples are worked out. Besides an informative and analytical General Introduction, explanatory introductions are prefixed to chapters indicating the contents and the method of approach adopted in those chapters.
About the Author
Professor T.S. Kuppanna Sastry (1900-1982), M.A., L.T., was a polymath. A Sanskritist by profession, he was also a keen student of the sciences, both eastern and western. His forte was early Indian astronomy, which he studied in compar
Pages: 412
About the Book
K.V. SarmaThe Pancasiddhantika of the sixth century astronomer Varahamihira is a major work on mathematical astronomy of early India, and is particularly significant for the fact that it provides a resume, though uneven, of five astronomical schools, viz., Vasistha, Paitamaha, Romaka, Paulisa and Saura, which flourished in India during the early centuries
of the Christian era. The full texts of all these systems are now lost, which makes the Pancasiddhantika all the more significant. All the available manuscripts of the work go back to a defective original. This makes the full and correct understanding of the work difficult and indefinitive, there being also occasional lacunae and obscure passages. These have, in many places, affected adversely the text and the translations of this work as issued earlier, by G. Thibaut and Sudhakara Dvivedi (Benares, 1889) and by O. Neugebauer and David Pingree (Copenhagen, 1970).
The present Critical edition of the Pancasiddhantika, which makes use of all the available manuscripts of the text as also external testimony, attempts to present a much more perfect text and translation of the work. To the edition has been added an authentic translation of the work with explanatory notes in terms inclusive of modern mathematics, adumbrated by tables and diagrams. Wherever computations are involved, illustrative examples are worked out. Besides an informative and analytical General Introduction, explanatory introductions are prefixed to chapters indicating the contents and the method of approach adopted in those chapters.
About the Author
Professor T.S. Kuppanna Sastry (1900-1982), M.A., L.T., was a polymath. A Sanskritist by profession, he was also a keen student of the sciences, both eastern and western. His forte was early Indian astronomy, which he studied in compar
