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This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide
to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with
an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature,
including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern
astronomy. It then discusses the primary mathematical astronomy
content of table texts and the attempted taxonomy of this genre
before diving into the broad outlines of their representation in
the Sanskrit scientific manuscript corpus. Finally, the authors
survey the major categories of individual tables compiled in these
texts, complete with brief analyses of some of the methods for
constructing and using them, and then chronicle the evolution of
the table-text genre and the impacts of its changing role on the
discipline of Sanskrit jyotisa. There are also three appendices:
one inventories all the identified individual works in the genre
currently known to the authors; one provides reference information
about the details of all the notational, calendric, astronomical,
and other classification systems invoked in the study; and one
serves as a glossary of the relevant Sanskrit terms.
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