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History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.81

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.81

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v6.c82.81

pp. 321–373 (on Hindu and Arabic divisions of the Zodiac), pp. 374–416 (on equinoxes), pp. 417–450 (on Hindu Algebra); Warren's 'Kāla-sankalita (deals with South Indian astronomical calculations and calendars); 'Indian Metrology' by J. B. Jervis; Kern's Introduction to his edition of the Bṛhat-saṁhitā; the Sūryasiddhānta translated by Burgess and Whitney and with notes by Whitney and a reply by Burgess in JAOS. vol. VI pp. 141–498 and Whitney's criticism of the views of Biot, Weber and Max Müller in JAOS vol. VIII pp. 1–94; the Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira edited by Dr G. Thibaut and Pandit Mahāmahopādhyāya Sudhakar Dvivedi with text (from two Mss.) and amended text with Sanskrit Commentary by the Pandit and translation by Thibaut (1889, reprint in 1930 by Motilal Banarsidas); Prof. Weber's 'Uber den Vedakalendar, Namens Jyotisham' (Berlin, 1862), Max Muller's Introduction to the 4th volume (of his four volume edition of the Ṛgveda) particularly pp. XXXVIII–LXVI; notes of Burgess on Hindu Astronomy in JRAS for 1893 pp. 717–761; B. G. Tilak's 'Orion' and 'Arctic Home in the Vedas'; Thibaut on the Babylonian origin of the lunar Zodiac of the Hindus, Arabs and Chinese in JASB (1894, Part I pp. 744–63, refutes the theory of that origin); S B. Dikshit's 'History of Indian Astronomy' (in Marathi), Thibaut on 'Indian Astronomy, Astrology and Mathematics' in the Encyclopaedia of Indo-Aryan Research (referred to in this book as Grundriss), Alberuni's 'India' translated by Dr. Sachau; I. A. vol. XXIII pp. 154–159 (Jacobi on date of Ṛgveda), pp. 238–249 (Bühler on Jacobi and Tilak's Orion), I. A. vol. 24 pp. 85–100 (Thibaut on the antiquity of the Vedic civilization); Memoir No 18 of the Archaeological Survey of India on Hindu Astronomy by G. R. Kaye (1924); Indian Historical Quarterly, vol IV for 1928 pp 68–77, Indian Historical Quarterly vol. V pp. 479–512 on 'Scope and development of Ganita'; C. O. S. Menon's 'Ancient Astronomy and Cosmogony' (1931); 'History of Hindu Mathematics' by B. Datta and A. N. Singh; Dr K. L. Daftari's 'Bhāratīya-jyotiḥ-śāstra-nirīkṣaṇa' (Nagpur, 1929) in Marathi; Prof. P. C. Sen-Gupta's paper 'Aryabhaṭa, the father of Indian Epicyclic Astronomy' (in the Journal of the Department of Letters, Calcutta University, vol. XVIII pp. 1–56, a scholarly piece of work); Dr Mrs. Bina Chatterjee's paper on 'motion of the Sun, Moon, and five planets as found in Ptolemy and Hindu Astronomical works' (a learned, systematic and balanced piece of work). in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Science, part I vol. XV, 1949 pp. 41–89.