Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.275

v2.c10.275

A fragment of an inscribed Greek parapegma found at Miletus contains several references to an Indian astronomer named Kallaneus who apparently wrote a work giving the times of the heliacal risings and settings of various fixed stars. The inscription is edited by H. Diels and A. Rehm [1904]. Kallaneus is certainly a Greek transcription of Kallāṇa = Kalyāṇa. It is not certain whether this figure is imaginary (Clearchus, *De somno* fr. 69 = *FHG*, vol. 2, p. 323 from Josephus, *Contra Apionem* I 22, says that philosophers are called Kalanoi by the Indians, Ioudaioi by the Syrians), is the gymnosophist of Alexander's time named Kalanos (Megasthenes fr. 42 = *FHG*, vol. 2, p. 439 from Strabo XV 68, and fr. 43 = *FHG*, vol. 2, p. 439 from Arrian, *Anabasis* VII 2,4), or is some other person.