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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Toke Lindegaard Knudsen , Jacob Schmidt-Madsen , Sara SpeyerPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 20 Weight: 0.870kg ISBN: 9789004436695ISBN 10: 9004436693 Pages: 434 Publication Date: 15 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Part 1 Introduction 1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen Erik Reenberg Sand 2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him Kamal Sheel Part 2 History of Medicine 3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Ayurvedic Concept? Vitus Angermeier 4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasamhita Philipp Maas 5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasamhita Cristina Pecchia 6 A New Translation of Carakasamhita, Vimanasthana, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition Dominik Wujastyk 7 On the Textual History of the Susrutasamhita, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations Andrey Klebanov 8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasayana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature Dagmar Wujastyk 9 Karman, Prayascitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipaka Digression in Madhavacarya's Parasaramadhaviya Mikael Aktor 10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India's Cities? Johannes Bronkhorst 11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment Anthony Cerulli Part 3 Astral Sciences 12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence Marko Geslani 13 The Ramayana and the Yugas Luis Gonzalez-Reimann 14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy Michio Yano 15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhaskaracarya's Generation of Sines Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle 16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy Kim Plofker 17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts Saraju Rath Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time 18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism Stefan Baums 19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature? Klaus Karttunen 20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Minaraja's Vrddhayavanajataka Bill M. Mak 21 Modern Samkhya: Plurality of Samkhya Traditions in Modern India Knut A. Jacobsen The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk IndexReviewsAuthor InformationToke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D. (2008), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Oneonta. He has published on astronomy and mathematics in ancient and medieval India, including The Siddhantasundara of Jnanaraja: An English Translation with Commentary (Johns Hopkins, 2014). Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupar and gyan caupar. Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an Ayurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Gargiyajyotisa, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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