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The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24.s1.t3: (3) Hindu Astronomy

The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24.s1.t3

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(3) Hindu Astronomy

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(a) Vedic

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B. G. TILAK.—The Orion, or Researches into the antiquity of the Vedas. Bombay, 1893.

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W. D. WHITNEY.—On a recent attempt by Jacobi and Tilak to determine on astronomical evidence the date of the earliest Vedic period as 4000 B.C. (*Proceedings of the American Oriental Society*, 1894, and the *Indian Antiquary*, xxiv, 1895, pp. 361-369.)

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G. THIBAUT.—On some recent attempts to determine the antiquity of Vedic civilization. (*Indian Antiquary*, xxiv, 1895, pp. 85-100.)

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See also A. WEBER, *Die vedeschen nachrichten vom den Naxatra*, 1860-1862, and *Uber den Veda Kalendar*, 1862, and *Ind. Stud.* x, 1868, 213-253; B. G. TILAK, *Trans. Ninth Internat. Cong. Orientalists*, 376-383; H. JACOBI, *Festgruss an Roth*, 1893, 68-74; *Ind. Ant.*, xxiii, 1894, 154f., Z. D. M. G., xlix, 1895, 218-230, and L. 1896, 69-83; G. BÜHLER, *Ind. Ant.* xxiii, 1894, 238-249; H. OLDENBERG, Z. D. M. G., xlviii, 1894, 629-648, xlix, 1895, 470-478. DIKSHIT, *Ind. Ant.*, 1895, xxiv, 245-6; FLEET, *J.R.A.S.*, 1911, 514-518 and 1119; BERIEDALE KEITH, *J.R.A.S.*, 1911, 794 and 1914, 627-640; R. SHAMASASTRY, *Ind. Ant.*, xli, 1912, 26, 45, 77, 117, 290 and xlii, 1913, 19, 32, 72; N. K. DUTT, *Dacca Review*, 1915, v, 270 ff, etc.

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(b) Texts and Commentaries

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[W. D. WHITNEY AND] E. BURGESS.—Translation of the Sūrya Siddhānta, a Text-book of Hindu Astronomy, with notes and appendix by Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, assisted by the committee of Publication. (*Journal of the American Oriental Society*, 1858, pp. 141-498.)

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BAPU DEVA SASTRI.—Translation of the Sūrya Siddhānta and of the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi by the late Lancelot Wilkinson, revised by B. D. Shastri, Calcutta, 1861.

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* H. KERN.—The Āryabhaṭīyas with the Commentary, Batadīpika of Paramadīśvara. *Leiden*, 1874.

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G. THIBAUT AND SUDHAKARA DVIVEDI.—The Pañchasiddhāntikā. The astronomical work of Varāha Mihira. The text edited with an original commentary in Sanskrit and an English Translation and Introduction. Benares, 1889.

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* BRĀHMASPHUṬASIDDHANTA AND DHYANAGRAHOPADESHADHYAYA BY BRAHMAGUPTA.—Edited with his own commentary by Mahāmahopādhyaya Sudhākara Dvivedin. *Benares*. 1902.

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LALA CHHOTE LAL.—The obscure text of the Jyotisha Vedāṅga explained. Allahabad, 1907.

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* BHĀSKARA.—The Treatise on astronomy by Bhāskarāchārya with his own exposition, the Vasana Bhashya. Formerly edited by the late Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Bapu Deo Shastri.

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See also ROER, J. A. S. B., 1844; A. WEBER *Ind. Stud.* x, 1866, 213 f.; HOERNLE, *J. A. S. B.*, 1893, lvii, 9-18; THIBAUT, J. A. S. B., 1877, xlvi, 411-437, 1880, xlix, 107-127 and 181-206, and 1884, LII, 259-293; J. BURGESS, *Ind. Ant.*, 1891, xx, 53; DIKSHIT, *Ind. Ant.*, XIX, 1890; SUDHĀKARA DVIVEDI'S *Jyantisham*, Benares, 1908; XIX, 45-54; M. P. KAREGAT, *J. A. S. Bombay*, 1896; The Benares *Sanskrit Series*, etc.

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∗ In Sanskrit only.

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(c) General

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J. S. BAILLY.—*Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale*. 1787.

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J. BENTLEY.—A Historical view of Hindu Astronomy from the earliest dawn of that science in India to the present time. In two Parts, part i. The Ancient Astronomy. Part ii. The Modern Astronomy, etc. London, 1825.

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J. M. F. GUERIN.—*Astronomie Indienne d'après la Doctrine et les livres anciennes et modernes des Brammes sur l'Astronomie, l'Astrologie et la Chronolgie—Suivie de l'examen de l'astronomie des anciens peuples de l'Orient et de l'Explication des principaux Monuments astronomico-astrologiques de l'Egypte et de la Perse*. Paris, 1847.

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* SUDHĀKARA DVIVEDI.—*Gaṇaka Taraṅginī*, or Lives of Hindu Astronomers.

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J. BURGESS.—Notes on Hindu astronomy and the History of our knowledge of it. *J.R.A.S.*, 1893, pp. 717 f.

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* S. B. DIKSHIT.—*Bhāratiya Jyotih-Śāstra*. Poona, 1896.

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G. THIBAUT.—*Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik (Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie*, iii, 9, 1897), pp. 717 f.

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See also DAVIS, *As. Res.*, 1790, ii, 225-287 and 1792, iii, 209-227; JONES, *As. Res.*, 1790, ii, 289-306, 1792, iii, 257-294; J. PLAYFAIR, *As. Res.*, 1795, iv, 158-164; J. BENTLEY, *As. Res.*, 1799, vi, 537-588; BUCHANAN, *As. Res.*, 1799, vi, 163 f.; JONES, *Works*, iv, 1-47, 48-69, 71-92; J. BENTLEY, *As. Res.*, 1805, viii, 193-244; H. T. COLEBROOKE, *As. Res.*, 1807, ix, 323-376 and 1816, XII, 209-250 [also *Misc. Essays*, 1872, II, xiv, 321-373 and II, xv, 374-416]; T. WARREN, *Kala Sankalita* 1825; H. R. HOISINGTON, *Oriental Astronomer*, Jaffna, 1848; W. BRENNAND, *Hindu Astronomy*, 1896; T AUFRECHT, *Cat. Bod.*, viii, 325 f., 1864; J. EGGELING, *Cat. Sans. MSS.*, India Office, part V, x, 1896; *CALCUTTA REVIEW*, 1850, xxv, 65-85; 1900, cx, 344-356; FLEET, *J. R. A. S.*, 1915, 213-230, etc., etc. A. BOUTQIN, *Ciel et Terre*, Bruxelles, 1908, pp. 105-112, 129-133, 159-163, 213-222.

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(d) Chronology

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See DIKSHIT, *Corp. Inscr. Ind.*, 1888, iii, 161-176; JACOBI, *Ind. Ant.*, 1888, xvii, 145-181, *Ep. Ind.*, i, 403-460 and ii, 487-498; SCHRAM, *Ind. Ant.*, 1889, xviii, 290-300; DIKSHIT, *Ind. Ant.*, 1890, xix, 48 f.; SEWELL and DIKSHIT, *The Indian Calendar*, 1896; KIELHORN, *Ind. Ant.*, 1899, xviii, 193-209 and 380-386; R. SCHRAM, *Kalendariographische und Chronologische Tafeln*. 1908; FLEET, *Enc. Britannica*, 13, 491-501; PILLAI, *Indian Chronology*, 1911; SEWELL, *Indian Chronography*, 1912; etc.

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