Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.34

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⁴⁷ CESS A 2, 143b–144a, and A 3, 35b. ⁴⁸ CESS A 1, 56b–57a. ⁴⁹ CESS A 4. ⁵⁰ Edited with his own Sanskrit ṭīkā by S. DVIVEDIN, Benares 1902, and with his own Sanskrit and Hindi ṭīkās and excerpts froın those of Pṛthūdakasvāmin and DVIVEDIN by R. SARMAN, 4 vols., New Delhi 1966. A new critical edition with the commentary of Pṛthūdakasvāmin, an English translation, and a commentary is being prepared by D. PINGREE. ⁵¹ Based on it was a Mahāsiddhānta which was translated into Arabic as Al-Zīj al-Sindhind al-kabīr in 771 or 773 by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī; see D. PINGREE, “The fragments of the Works of al-Fazārī,” JNES 29 (1970), 103–123. This tradition was also followed by al-Fazārī’s contemporary, Ya‘qūb ibn Ṭāriq; see D. PINGREE, “The Fragments of the Ya‘qūb ibn Ṭāriq,” JNES 27 (1968), 97–125. See also D. PINGREE, The Thousands of Abū Ma‘shar, London 1968. ⁵² Concerning the relation of the Sindhind tradition—particularly in the form of the Latin version of al-Khwārizmī’s Al-Zīj al-Sindhind and its commentaries—to the BSS and other Sanskrit works see D. PINGREE, “The Indian and Pseudo-Indian Passages in Greek and Latin Astronomical and Astrological Texts,” Viator 7 (1976), 141–195, esp. 151–169.