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Hayatagrantha [Sanskrit]
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Hayatagrantha
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Sanskrit
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This Sanskrit translation of ʿAlī al-Qūshjī Persian treatise illustrates the influence of the Samarqand school on Indian astronomers. The original translation is thought to have been composed in the 17th century, with added material sometime in the 18th century by an unknown astronomer. |
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1002364
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Literature References
Pingree, David. 1996. “Indian Reception of Muslim Versions of Ptolemaic Astronomy”. In Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre‐modern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma, eds. F. Jamil Ragep, Sally Ragep, and Steven Livesey, 471-85. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.
Esp. pp. 475-76.
Pingree, David. 1978. “Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 2 (2): 315-30.
Esp. pp. 326-28.
Bhaṭṭācārya, V. B., ed. 1967. Hayatagrantha. Vārāṇasī: Varanaseya Sanskrit Vish-vavidyalaya.