Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasāraṇī

Anuj Misra, Ph.D. (2016), University of Canterbury, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on medieval and early-modern exchanges in Sanskrit astral sciences and has contributed articles and book-chapters examining Islamicate influences in Sanskrit astronomy.Clemency Montelle, Ph.D. (2005), Brown University, Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, has research interests in the mathematical history of early cultures of inquiry and has contributed books and articles on the subject. Kim Plofker, Ph.D. (1995), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Union College, NY. Her research on Indian science and its Islamic and European counterparts includes Mathematics in India (Princeton, 2009) and Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (with Clemency Montelle; Springer, 2018).

• 1 Introduction1.1 Critical Editing and Numerical Tables1.2 Textual Scholarship Applied to Table Texts: The State of The Field1.3 Critical Editing and the Sanskrit Text Corpus2 Overview of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī and Its Manuscripts2.1 The Brahmatulyasāraṇī: Background and Approach2.2 Manuscript Witnesses to the Brahmatulyasāraṇī2.3 Colophon and Post-colophon Material from the Manuscripts3 Technical Analysis of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī3.1 Overview of the Brahmatulyasāraṇī and Its Tables3.2 Accumulated Civil Days (ahargaṇa) since Epoch; Mean Longitudes3.3 Local and Secular Adjustments to Mean Longitudes3.4 Computation and Application of the manda-Equation to Mean Longitude and Velocity for the Seven Planets3.5 Computation and Application of the śīghra-Equation for the Five Planets; Completion of True Longitude and Velocity Corrections3.6 Corrections due to the Sun’s Position4 Variation in Manuscripts of Brahmatulyasāraṇī Tables4.1 Tables and Their Organisation4.2 Paratext4.3 Layout4.4 Representation of Numerical Data5 Framework and Features of the Critical Edition5.1 Typographic Conventions5.2 Editing Problems and Editorial Choices for the Tables5.3 Intrinsic Structure of the Edited Tables6 Critical Edition of Versified Text and Tables6.1 Critical Edition of the Verses6.2 Critical Edition of the Tables7 Appendix: Sanskrit Astronomy and the KaraṇakutūhalaReferencesIndex