language, literature, and heliocentrism in India

[Luis Gonzalez-Reimann]

The following might be of interest:

Pingree, D.  An astronomer's progress (Maharajadhiraja Jayasimha,
heliocentrism). PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Mar,
1999, V143(N1):73-85.

Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
University of California, Berkeley


At 12:00 AM 02/14/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>The Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata (b. 473) contains the well-known statement
>about the earth rotating; followed (annoyingly) by a statement about the
>earth being central and the stars rotating.  Anyhow, this was certainly
>controversial in the jyotisa tradition, and later writers such as
>Varahamihira criticised Aryabhata roundly for deviating from the true
>opinion of the Puranas and other such texts.
>
>See Pingree, Jyotihsastra: astral and mathematical literaure, Wiesbaden
>1981, for an orientation in this literature.
>
>--
>Dominik Wujastyk
>Founder, INDOLOGY list.
>