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UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA LIBRARY 68 134 CENSUS OF THE EXACT SCIENCES IN SANSKRIT SERIES A, VOLUME 2 DAVID PINGREE OX l!BB!£ CENSUS OF THE EXACT SCIENCES IN SANSKRIT MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge Volume 86 CENSUS OF THE EXACT SCIENCES IN SANSKRIT SERIES A, VOLUME 2 DAVID PINGREE Professor of the History of Mathematics Brown University AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE • PHILADELPHIA 1971 Copyright © 1971 by The American Philosophical Society Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 70-115882 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author wishes here to express again his thanks for their cooperation to the individuals and institutions recorded in the preface to CESS A 1. To these must now be added the Royal Asiatic Society and the Wellcome Historical Medical Research Library in London, and the Cambridge University Library and the Trinity College Library in Cambridge, England. Special thanks are due to Miss Alice Kniskern of the South Asian Reference Center in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, who has brought to my attention the Library’s new acquisitions in the field of jyotih^astra. D. P. v 2165497 CONTENTS PAGE Introduction. 1 Abbreviations of Journals and Serials. 2 Bibliography. 3 List of Catalogues of Sanskrit Manuscripts and Books. 8 Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit. 9 vii Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Alberta Libraries https://archive.org/details/censusofexactsci02ping INTRODUCTION This, the second volume of Series A of the Census of From this large number of individuals there is slowly the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (CESS), is devoted to emerging a clear picture of the familial traditions of those authors whose names begin with a guttural—k, both jyotisas and scribes. The completion of CESS kh, g, or gh (none, of course, begins with n). But it also will permit a detailed analysis of the development of contains a considerable amount of material supple¬ these scholarly families and of the schools to which mentary to that which appeared in the first volume they belonged as well as a history of the transmission (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. of scientific literature in India. It will also be possible 81, Philadelphia, 1970). As new articles and books to study the regional distribution of various categories have appeared, as older ones have become known to of texts and the extent to which science was unified the author, and as the author’s conception of the scope in India. Hopefully the material will suffice to provide of the work has broadened (especially in those im¬ some insights into other areas of Indian intellectual perfectly bounded areas where jyotih6astra combines history as well. For this purpose it is essential that the with dharmaSastra, chronology, and geography), the information recorded be not only accurate but com¬ bibliography (pp. 3-7) has expanded. New entries plete. At the present time neither aim can be perfectly have also been made in the abbreviations (p. 2) and achieved; the author must rely on catalogues which in the list of catalogues1 (p. 8). From this supplemental are certainly often in error (he has silently corrected material there has been gleaned additional information those which were obvious enough), and he cannot about authors whose names begin witli vowels. This personally inspect those libraries which have not as will be found on pp. 11-18 of this volume. In those yet been catalogued at all. He requests, therefore, cases in which the author has already been noticed in that anyone who detects an error or who has knowl¬ the first volume, an asterisk is prefixed to his name. edge of material on jyotih^astra which has escaped his About 150 authors were discussed in volume 1; this notice should communicate with him in order that the second volume contains articles on about 500 more. corrections and additions may be made in the future volumes of CESS. 1 All the lists which have been utilized in NCC and which are The third volume of Series A, which is under prepa¬ referred to in the list of catalogues with the name “Raghavan” are ration, will include authors whose names begin with deposited in the Sanskrit Department of the University of Madras. 1 am very grateful to Dr. V. Raghavan for giving me the cerebrals (c, ch, j, and jh), reflexives (t, th, d, and dh), facilities to consult them. and dentals (t, th, d, dh, and n). 1 ABBREVIATIONS OF JOURNALS AND SERIALS BITCM—Bulletin of the Institute of Traditional Cultures, Madras MO—The Mysore Orientalist BSHCS—Bulletin of the School of Historical and Cultural Studies NKGWG—Nachrichten von der Koniglichen Gesellschaft der CSS—Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Wissenschaften zu Gottingen Ganga OS—Gaiiga Oriental Series PPP—Panjab Past and Present HNM—Harikrsnanibandhamanimala PST—Pracyavani Sanskrit Texts HPSG—Hindi Paramarsa Samiti Granthamald Parana HSG—Hindi Samiti Granthamald QRHS—The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies HVG—Hindu Visvavidyalaya Granthamald Rtam IF—Indogermanische Forschungen SVUOJ—Sri Venkateswara University Oriental Journal (see JHA—Journal for the History of Astronomy JSVOI) JJ—Jain Journal JLG—Jhanapitha Lokodaya Granthamald TSMS—Tanjore Saraswathi Mahal Series JNMC—Journal of the National Museums of Ceylon VSG—Vidydbhavanasamskrtagranthamdld JRIHR—Journal of the Rajasthan Institute of Historical Research ZN—Zeitschrift fiir Numismatik 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY Aalto, Pentti. 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